Re: Custom format for pg_dumpall

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Custom format for pg_dumpall
Date: 2004-03-15 14:03:12
Message-ID: 200403151403.i2FE3Cn19831@candle.pha.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why is there no custom format dump option for pg_dumpall? What if I
> want to use pg_dumpall to dump all db's and blobs? Or if I want to have
> a huge sql dump from which I can easily exract the sql to recreate just
> one table?

I think it is because we have no mechanism to merge multiple custom
format files from different databases into a single file. Perhaps this
is a TODO.

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