Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Why use it around the whole file and not only around that particular
>> table's operations?
> You could. That just behaves slightly differently.
pg_dump does not always produce all the commands affecting a single
table together, so I don't think you can actually get the desired
results --- certainly it would be a nontrivial amount of work to get
any useful behavior like that.
regards, tom lane