Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 1/19/21 10:54 PM, Adrian Ho wrote: >> A quick look at the `pg_dump` source code indicates that: >> >> * `-Z` requires an argument, and >> >> * the argument is converted to an integer with the `atoi()` C function >> >> This means that `-Z` actually took `-v` as its argument, which `atoi()` >> converts to integer 0. That explains what you saw, and I'm also guessing >> you did NOT get verbose output from your second command. > That's right. Using atoi or siblings without any error checking is not unusual in our programs (or lots of others, I imagine). I recall some past discussion of tightening up parsing of integer arguments to complain if they didn't look like integers. But evidently nobody's pushed that forward. regards, tom lane
