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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proper format for pg_dump file date
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:17:40 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 1:14 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> > If you are doing a custom format dump using .sql as the extension is
> > objectively wrong. it is correct if you are doing an sql dump, but those
> > are generally best avoided.
>
> David,
>
> I use the default text format so restoration is by psql.
>

Perfectly valid for small databases, and copying tables from one instance
to another (though in that case, consider postgres_fdw).


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