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From: tushar <[email protected]>
To: Mahendra Singh Thalor <[email protected]>
Cc: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: Vaibhav Dalvi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:52:58 +0530
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM Mahendra Singh Thalor <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
>
> We have another thread for this. We have patches also. Last year, we
> planned to block these databases at creation time.
>
> >
> > It's probably harmless, we connect to the databases further down to do
> actual work. But it's also not nice. The toc.glo seems to have a bunch of
> extraneous entries of type COMMENT and CONNECT. Why is that? As far as
> poible this should have output pretty much  identical to a plain pg_dumpall.
> >
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
> > andrew
>
> If we don't dump those comments in non-text format, then the output of
> "pg_restore -f filename dump_non_text" will not be the same as the
> plain dump of pg_dumpall.
>
> Here, I am attaching an updated patch for the review and testing.
>
>
Hi Mahendra,

I found a scenario  in which the table is not
restored if --transaction-size switch is used  at the time of pg_restore
operation

Please refer this scenario:
Case A --pg_restore operation with "--transaction-size" against the  dump
(taken using pg_dump) -
create a table ( create table t(n int); )
perform pg_dump ( ./pg_dump -Ft postgres -f xyz.tar)
create a database (create database test;)
perform pg_restore using switch "--transaction-size" ( ./pg_restore
--transaction-size=1 -d test xyz.tar)
table is restored into test database

Case B --pg_restore operation with "--transaction-size" against the  dump
(taken using pg_dumpall) -
create a table ( create table t(n int); )
perform pg_dumpall ( ./pg_dumpall -Ft -f abc.tar)
create a new cluster, start the server against a different port
perform pg_restore using switch "--transaction-size" (./pg_restore -Ft
--transaction-size=10 -d postgres abc.tar -p 9000 -C)
table is not restored

if i remove --transaction-size switch then this works.

regards,


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