At 10:00 25/04/01 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>Does anybody know:
>
>1) Is the tar/custom format of pg_dump is portable accross different
> platforms?
It's supposed to be; if it's not, it's a bug.
>2) if I want to dump out all of database cluster contents including
> large objects, is following procedure correct?
>
> (dump procedure)
> pg_dumpall -g
> pg_dump -F c .... for each database
> :
> :
>
> (restore procedure)
> initdb
> psql template1 < dumpout_of_pg_dumpall
> pg_restore ... for each database
Looks OK to me. You need a '-b' on the pg_dump (for BLOBS), and each dump
command will need to go to a separate file - it won't currently work if
multiple dumps are being sent to stdout.
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