Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
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Msg-id ZmcTMVHU0cdJjrrs@nathan
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In response to Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2024-06-10 Mo 10:14, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> I'm curious why we couldn't also support the "custom" format.
> 
> We could, but the housekeeping would be a bit harder. We'd need to keep
> pointers to the offsets of the per-database TOCs (I don't want to have a
> single per-cluster TOC). And we can't produce it in parallel, so I'd rather
> start with something we can produce in parallel.

Got it.

-- 
nathan



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