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From Mag Gam
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Responses Re: best practices for dumping databases  ("Sean Davis" <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>)
Re: best practices for dumping databases  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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What is the best way to dump a database?

Currently, I am using pg_dump dbname. However, my data contains a lot of escape sequences and various characters which is causing a restore problem. How can I avoid problems like this? Is there a "binary" dump and restore? I rather use that if its going to guarantee valid data.

TIA


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