Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.
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Msg-id 16DEB62F-EEBA-4BA2-AD17-8CB4290FCA5E@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On July 26, 2018 7:33:30 PM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 06:53:06PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> If we were to remove it, it'd obviously be a drawn out affair, given
>> that we likely couldn't drop it from the restore side immediately...
>
>The maintenance load is not high as well

Yea, I mentioned that.   Worthwhile to note that it's nor pretty code.

>, so I see no real point in
>removing it, and that it would likely make people using it unhappy.

Because others have to figure out what the format is when looking at pg-dump. And might choose wrongly. That's a cost
aswell. 

Andres
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