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* Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
@ 2024-06-04 15:25  Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
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From: Ron Johnson @ 2024-06-04 15:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-general

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 10:43 AM Adrian Klaver <[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.


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* Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
@ 2024-06-04 15:33  Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
  parent: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
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From: Adrian Klaver @ 2024-06-04 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>; pgsql-general

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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