Re: backup.sgml patch that adds information on custom format backups - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: backup.sgml patch that adds information on custom format backups
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Msg-id 1360532866.34615.YahooMailNeo@web162903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: backup.sgml patch that adds information on custom format backups  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what others think, but the proposed wording seems a
> bit hard on plain text dumps to me.

Agreed.  I don't know how many times I've piped the output of
pg_dump to the input of psql.  Certainly that was very common
before pg_upgrade was available.  And for development purposes a
text script file is often exactly what is needed -- to store it in
custom format first would just be an extra step which would waste
time.  Since I got my head around PITR dumps, I've rarely had a
reason to use the pg_dump custom format, myself.

-Kevin




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