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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 D71856B6-A219-4870-8383-1FBA0436415D@thebuild.com
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In response to Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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> On Jul 26, 2018, at 20:09, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
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> Do you, perhaps, have any insight into why those users are currently
> using the .tar format?

Inertia, in most cases; some of those procedures have been around since 8.1 days.  Custom format (or a tar'd parallel
dump)would be an undoubtedly superior choice.  A long depreciation window would cover a lot of those situations. 

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