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Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.
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Msg-id 4E9BC39D-6416-4766-8680-644A1A991F8B@thebuild.com
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In response to Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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> On Jul 26, 2018, at 19:35, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>
> Why, specifically, would it make them unhappy?

Forensic and archive backups in .tar format (which I know of users doing) would require a two-step restore process on
newerversions. 

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