>> Note that this feature has the odd effect that some constraints are loaded at the same time as the tables and some are loaded with the post-data. This is consistent with how text-mode pg_dump has always worked, but will seem odd to the user. This also raises the possibility of a future pg_dump/pg_restore optimization.
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> That does seem odd. Why do we do it that way?
Beats me.
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