That particular argument needs to be rejected vociferously.
Okay, I will concede that part of my argument. And for the record, I've written pg_dump output parsing programs many times over the years, and seen others in the wild. It's not uncommon as some in this thread think.
What other part of pg_dump's output is not produced by default?
None, but that's kind of the point - this is a very special class of data (so much so, that we've been arguing about where it fits in our usual pre/data/post paradigm). So I don't think it's unreasonable that something this unique (and non-deterministic) gets excluded by default. It's still only a flag away if people require it.
