Re: Modified pg_dump & new pg_restore need testing...

At 13:53 30/06/00 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
>Sounds like something that is a suitable replacement for what we have now
>... I particularly like the 'compressed output' *but* is there some way,
>for the paranoid, of doing an uncompressed format
>(--dont-compress?)? Then again, how does this handle someone wanting to
>dump the database for reloading into a non-PgSQL database?
>

There will be; you can specify -z0 on the pg_dump, but it still has binary
junk in the output. I will add a '--plain-text, -p' option to dump it into
text. You can also use pg_restore to dump the file to text.

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