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From: Rob Sargent <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:37:14 -0600
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On 6/4/24 13:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:55 PM Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
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>     On 6/4/24 11:40, Shaheed Haque wrote:
>     >
>     > We use it. I bet lots of others do too.
>     >
>     >
>
>     Of course.  There are lots of small, real, useful databases in the
>     wild.
>
> But why tar instead of custom? That was part of my original question.
>
That I can't say.  Familiarity?  Fewer keystrokes?

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