At 05:50 PM 23/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Looking at the pg_dump code, it seems the fseeks are optional in there
>anyway because it already has code to read the file sequentially rather
But there are features that are not available if it can't seek: eg. it will
not restore in a different order to that in which it was written; it will
not dump data offsets in the TOC so dump files can not be restored in
alternate orders; restore times will be large for a single table (it has to
read the entire file potentially).
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