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To: Gavin Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:35:21 +0100
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 20:47, Gavin Roy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> But why tar instead of custom? That was part of my original question.
>>
>
> I've found it pretty useful for programmatically accessing data in a dump
> for large databases outside of the normal pg_dump/pg_restore workflow. You
> don't have to seek through one large binary file to get to the data section
> to get at the data.
>
This is true for us too; specifically, tar, including with compression, is
very convenient for both CLI and Python ecosystems.
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