From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: AW: Modified pg_dump & new pg_restore need testing... |
Date: | 2000-07-03 08:02:10 |
Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20000703180210.022538f0@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 09:56 3/07/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
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>> - the default output file format is a custom format with compressed
>> sections (the data dumps). It is NOT a text file.
>
>Can this be turned off, or made to be feature, that you can turn on ?
>Imho most dumps will be piped to a locally
>optimized compressor (a tape, a storage manager, lzop, ...) anyway,
>thus most of the time a backup would compress twice.
Yes. The default is now plain text for compatibility with the original
pg_dump (and with pg_dumpall). But by going to plain text output you gain
none of the features of pg_restore (reordering, selection etc).
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