Re: directory archive format for pg_dump

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, José Arthur Benetasso Villanova <jose(dot)arthur(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: directory archive format for pg_dump
Date: 2010-12-16 20:28:40
Message-ID: 4D0A7678.8040609@dunslane.net
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On 12/16/2010 03:13 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> So how bad would it be if we committed this new format without support
> for splitting large relations into multiple files, or with some stub
> support that never actually gets used, and fixed this later? Because
> this is starting to sound like a bigger project than I think we ought
> to be requiring for this patch.

I don't think we have to have that in the first go at all. Parallel dump
could be extremely useful without it. I haven't looked closely, but I
assume there will still be an archive version recorded somewhere. When
we change the archive format, bump the version number.

cheers

andrew

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