Re: Custom format for pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why is there no custom format dump option for pg_dumpall?  What if I 
> want to use pg_dumpall to dump all db's and blobs?  Or if I want to have 
> a huge sql dump from which I can easily exract the sql to recreate just 
> one table?

I think it is because we have no mechanism to merge multiple custom
format files from different databases into a single file.  Perhaps this
is a TODO.

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