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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mahendra Singh Thalor <[email protected]>
Cc: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: Srinath Reddy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:37:14 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


On 2025-03-11 Tu 5:03 PM, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Mar-11, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure everyone thinks that was a good idea for backup manifests (in
>> fact I know some don't), and it seems somewhat like overkill for a simple
>> map of oids to database names.
> If such a simple system can be made to work for all possible valid
> database names, then I agree with you.  But if it forces us to restrict
> database names to not contain newlines or other funny chars that are so
> far unrestricted, then I would take the other position.
>

Well, JSON is supposed to be UTF8. What should we do about database 
names that are not UTF8?

It's kinda tempting to say we should have the file consist of lines like:

     oid base64_encoded_name escaped_human_readable name


cheers


andrew

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