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From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:33:47 -0700
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On 6/4/24 08:25, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 10:43 AM Adrian Klaver <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     On 6/4/24 05:13, Ron Johnson wrote:
>      > It doesn't support compression nor restore reordering like the
>     custom
>      > format, so I'm having trouble seeing why it still exists (at least
>      > without a doc warning that it's obsolete).
> 
>     pg_dump -d test -U postgres -Ft  | gzip --stdout > test.tgz
> 
> 
> Who's got meaningful databases that small anymore?
> 
> And if you've got meaningfully sized databases, open port 5432 and move 
> them using pg_dump.

If you don't need the tar format then don't use it.

-- 
Adrian Klaver
[email protected]

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