Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump --comment?

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What happens in a pg_dump -Fc / pg_restore scenario?

> So, in non-ascii format, I need to dump a comment record and read it
> back on restore? Yuck. Anyone want to tackle that?

Yes. Hacking the output routines alone is almost never the right way
to do things in pg_dump.

My feeling is that if anyone cares to tackle this, it would be
appropriate to add a record type that carries a user-supplied
comment, and then people could do something like
pg_dump --comment "generated on `date`"
if they want to have a timestamp. I don't want a timestamp put
into the file by default, because that creates problems for
comparing dump files.

regards, tom lane