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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:21:03 -0400
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Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Is there a particular advantage to that approach as opposed to just using
>> "directory" mode for everything?

> A gazillion files to deal with? Much easier to work with individual custom
> files if you're moving databases around and things like that.
> Much easier to monitor eg sizes/dates if you're using it for backups.

You can always tar up the directory tree after-the-fact if you want
one file.  Sure, that step's not parallelized, but I think we'd need
some non-parallelized copying to create such a file anyway.

			regards, tom lane

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