Re: why use -Ft or -Fc instead of the other on pg_dump? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Douglas J Hunley
Subject Re: why use -Ft or -Fc instead of the other on pg_dump?
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Msg-id 200802191350.00429.doug@hunley.homeip.net
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In response to Re: why use -Ft or -Fc instead of the other on pg_dump?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:12:23 Tom Lane wrote:
> I can't really imagine any reason to choose -Ft, except wanting to do
> post-processing of the dump with command-line tools.  -Ft's lack of
> compression and limitations on component size are sufficient reasons
> not to choose it without a specific need to.  I think it has some
> other limitations too, but those are two that I recall immediately.

Excellent. Pretty much closes the debate here. Thx Tom

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