Package: postgresql-client
Version: 7.4.7-6
Severity: wishlist

The pg_dump(1) manual page mentions:

       --format=format

              Selects the format of the output.  format can be one of
              the following:

              p      Output a plain-text SQL script file (default)

              t      Output a tar archive suitable for input into
                     pg_restore.  Using this archive format allows
                     reordering and/or exclu- sion of schema elements
                     at the time the database is restored.  It is also
                     possible to limit which data is reloaded at
                     restore time.

              c      Output a custom archive suitable for input into
                     pg_restore.  This is the most flexible format in
                     that it allows reordering of data load as well as
                     schema ele- ments. This format is also compressed
                     by default.

SUGGESTION

Please allow using full description names with GNU long options style.
So instead of writing this into scripts:

  --format=c

It would be more readable if the types would allow full words with
--long opyion syntax, like:

  --format=custom
  --format=tar
  --format=plain-text

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages postgresql-client depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.49       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.13.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libkrb53                    1.3.6-3      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpq3                      7.4.7-6      PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libreadline4                4.3-15       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7g-1     SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

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