Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode
Date: 2005-06-30 03:56:32
Message-ID: 42C36D70.3070108@familyhealth.com.au
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> The trick in hacking pg_dump is to understand which layer you need to
> modify. The whole thing seems overly complex to me :-( ... but
> redesigning it is a project for another release cycle.

I just find the whole BLOB handling very tricky to understand :(

I vote that we combine pg_dumpall and pg_dump into a single app in the
future...

It should be possible to make them both work backward compatibly. Means
we can possibly gain custom format full cluster dumps.

Chris

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