Douglas J Hunley <doug(at)hunley(dot)homeip(dot)net> writes:
> I seemed to have walked into a "spirited" debate at work today, so I'm turning
> to the authorities to get it resolved. Why would one choose -Ft over -Fc (or
> vice-versa) when doing pg_dump?
I can't really imagine any reason to choose -Ft, except wanting to do
post-processing of the dump with command-line tools. -Ft's lack of
compression and limitations on component size are sufficient reasons
not to choose it without a specific need to. I think it has some
other limitations too, but those are two that I recall immediately.
regards, tom lane