> > As suggested I have now added a '--plain-text, -p' option to pg_dump
> > to dump it into text.
> 
> The *default* action of pg_dump should be to write plain text and to
> standard output. Changing that will certainly make a lot of 
> people very unhappy.

Imho the default should be text for anything except data. The data should
imho 
be in a format similar to a binary cursor. I say similar, because this
format should 
probably be converted to a network byte order, so you can restore on another
hardware. Imho calling type output and input functions during backup/restore
is a substantial overhead that would best be avoided.

I agree, that the output should not be compressed by default.

Andreas

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