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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[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 11:20:18 -0500
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 05:45:19PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 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?  I know pg_upgrade uses "custom" mode for
>> each of the databases, so a combo approach would be a closer match to the
>> existing behavior, but that doesn't strike me as an especially strong
>> reason to keep doing it that way.
> 
> 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.
> 
> It's not things that are make-it-or-break-it or anything, but there are
> some smaller things that definitely can be useful.

Makes sense, thanks for elaborating.

-- 
nathan

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