Re: BUG #5488: pg_dump does not quote column names -> pg_restore may fail when upgrading - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 10/06/10 16:21, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I do agree that the human readability of pg_dump is an asset in many
>> situations - I have often dumped out the DDL for particular objects
>> just to look at it, for example.  However, I emphatically do NOT agree
>> that leaving someone with a 500MB dump file (or, for some people on
>> this list, a whole heck of a lot larger than that) that has to be
>> manually edited to reload is a useful behavior.  It's a huge pain in
>> the neck.

> Much easier to do a schema-only dump, edit that, and dump data separately.

That gets you out of the huge-file-to-edit problem, but the performance
costs of restoring a separate-data dump are a pretty serious
disadvantage.  We really should do something about that.

            regards, tom lane