Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode
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Msg-id 42C36D70.3070108@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> The trick in hacking pg_dump is to understand which layer you need to
> modify.  The whole thing seems overly complex to me :-( ... but
> redesigning it is a project for another release cycle.

I just find the whole BLOB handling very tricky to understand :(

I vote that we combine pg_dumpall and pg_dump into a single app in the
future...

It should be possible to make them both work backward compatibly.  Means
we can possibly gain custom format full cluster dumps.

Chris


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