Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression - Mailing list pgsql-patches

* daveg (daveg@sonic.net) wrote:
> The feature that the proposed patch enables is to create pg_dump custom
> format archives for multiple tables with a predicate. No amount of csv or
> xml will do that. Contrived example:

Uh, pg_dump's custom format really isn't particularly special, to be
honest.  Is there some reason you're interested in using it over, as was
suggested, COPY/CSV/etc format?  You could, of course, gzip the output
of COPY (as pg_dump does) if you're concerned about space..

    Thanks,

        Stephen