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

At 23:23 1/07/00 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> As suggested I have now added a '--plain-text, -p' option to pg_dump
>> to dump it into text.
>
>The *default* action of pg_dump should be to write plain text and to
>standard output. Changing that will certainly make a lot of people very
>unhappy.

Good point; I'll make it the default. The -Z {0..9] switch and -F {p|c|f}
switches can be used to select output compression levels and output format.

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