Re: Header meaning for pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Header meaning for pg_dump
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Msg-id 20061107100622.GB19789@svana.org
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In response to Re: Header meaning for pg_dump  ("Premsun Choltanwanich" <Premsun@nsasia.co.th>)
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:40:54AM +0700, Premsun Choltanwanich wrote:
> Dear Richard,
>
> Regarding the information you give to me, I understand that this
> information is a thing that normally used by PostgreSQL system. And
> the information seem to be placed on a comment area. So, Who need to
> have a clearly understanding on the header information?

AFAIK nothing (in the main distribution) actually uses it. It's more a
header for people while they're scanning the dump. It also makes a nice
anchor point for sed scripts if you want to extract a single object
from the dump.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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