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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: backup.sgml WIP (patch included)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:04:52 -0300
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> A change I did not make per Craig Ringer (and plenty of other people through
> the years):
> 
> "Instead we should be advising people to use pg_dump -Fc and pg_restore as
> their default and primary method of dumping a database. It is rarely
> desirable to use text dumps and if pg_dump was being written now, it'd
> surely default to -Fc ."
> 
> I think we really need to think about this.

Yeah, this makes sense, except that if you want parallel dump (and many
people do) you need -Fd.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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