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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:40:25 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
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Subject: Re: pg_dump additional options for performance
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>>> I dislike, and doubt that I'd use, this approach.  At the end of the
>>> day, it ends up processing the same (very large amount of data) multiple
>>> times.

> This would depend on the dump being in the custom format, though I
> suppose that ends up being true for any usage of these options.  I've
> never really been a fan of the custom format, in large part because it
> doesn't really buy you all that much and makes changing things more
> difficult (by having to extract out what you want to change, and then
> omit it from the restore).

Custom format rocks for partial set restores from a whole dump. See the 
TOC option :)

Joshua D. Drake