Re: Bad pg_dump error message

From: Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bad pg_dump error message
Date: 2012-09-11 05:24:20
Message-ID: CABs1bs30giSYxNVpxWkYubOFKT9u=1LDSwWz3CWw8o4BWe+MRw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> writes:
>> Oh reading the online docs, it looks like what I may have wanted was:
>> --format=custom
>
> Right. That does everything tar format does, only better --- the only
> thing tar format beats it at is you can disassemble it with tar. Back
> in the day that seemed like a nice thing, open standards and all; but
> the 8GB per file limit is starting to get annoying.

Thanks for your help, Tom!

Next time I'll read the docs. "custom" is kinda a weird name for it,
I think I just kinda glazed over it thinking it was some way to define
my own format or something..

Mike

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