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Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
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* Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
@ 2024-06-04 17:06 Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
  2024-06-04 17:40 ` Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format? Shaheed Haque <[email protected]>
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From: Adrian Klaver @ 2024-06-04 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>

Reply to list also.
Ccing list

On 6/4/24 10:03 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:

> 
>     If you don't need the tar format then don't use it.
> 
> 
> That's neither the purpose nor the point of my question.
> 
> I think that a note in the docs mentioning that it's obsolete would be 
> helpful for new users who recognize "tar" so choose it.

You are assuming facts not in evidence, namely that the format is obsolete.

-- 
Adrian Klaver
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* Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
  2024-06-04 17:06 Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format? Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
@ 2024-06-04 17:40 ` Shaheed Haque <[email protected]>
  2024-06-04 18:55   ` Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format? Rob Sargent <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Shaheed Haque @ 2024-06-04 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]; +Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]

We use it. I bet lots of others do too.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, 18:06 Adrian Klaver, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Reply to list also.
> Ccing list
>
> On 6/4/24 10:03 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> >     If you don't need the tar format then don't use it.
> >
> >
> > That's neither the purpose nor the point of my question.
> >
> > I think that a note in the docs mentioning that it's obsolete would be
> > helpful for new users who recognize "tar" so choose it.
>
> You are assuming facts not in evidence, namely that the format is obsolete.
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> [email protected]
>
>
>


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* Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
  2024-06-04 17:06 Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format? Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
  2024-06-04 17:40 ` Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format? Shaheed Haque <[email protected]>
@ 2024-06-04 18:55   ` Rob Sargent <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: Rob Sargent @ 2024-06-04 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]



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.







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