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On 12/16/2010 03:13 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> So how bad would it be if we committed this new format without support
> for splitting large relations into multiple files, or with some stub
> support that never actually gets used, and fixed this later?  Because
> this is starting to sound like a bigger project than I think we ought
> to be requiring for this patch.

I don't think we have to have that in the first go at all. Parallel dump 
could be extremely useful without it. I haven't looked closely, but I 
assume there will still be an archive version recorded somewhere. When 
we change the archive format, bump the version number.

cheers

andrew