Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3, time to rename conflict names ?

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

19.11.2012 19:54, Ann Harrison wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Dmitry Yemanov <fir...@ya...
> <mailto:fir...@ya...>> wrote:
>
>     gbak -> fb_dump
>     nbackup -> fb_backup
>
>     because IMO it better reflects their goals.
>
> Gbak is not equivalent to the MySQL or Postgres dumps which produce a
> series of insert statements that can be edited.  From my experience,
> people expect textual output from a dump and will be
> disappointed/annoyed to get our backup file.

True. But perhaps some better idea could be suggested instead. Because I 
do think that semantically gbak is a [binary] dump utility for some 
special (read: rare) tasks while nbackup is what's intended to have fast 
backup/restore cycle (even leaving in piece its incremental capabilities).


Dmitry