pg_dump custom format specification

Someone has some kind of specification or description of the pg_dump
custom format?

What I'm trying to do is an utility to remotelly syncronize postgresql
dumps, using lib_rsync to syncronize each table independently and
copying blobs only when sizes differ.

I've made the same using the Tar format, but I think most of the
features and optimizations like paralell-restore are now only available
with the custom format.

I will do the script in Python, so, I need to know how to parse and
write pg_dumps in custom format.

Thanks in advance.

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On 01/21/2012 07:44 AM, Guillermo M. Narvaja wrote:
> Someone has some kind of specification or description of the pg_dump
> custom format?
>
> What I'm trying to do is an utility to remotelly syncronize postgresql
> dumps, using lib_rsync to syncronize each table independently and
> copying blobs only when sizes differ.
>
> I've made the same using the Tar format, but I think most of the
> features and optimizations like paralell-restore are now only available
> with the custom format.
>
> I will do the script in Python, so, I need to know how to parse and
> write pg_dumps in custom format.

You might find this useful: <https://gist.github.com/1258232> It's a
perl script that parses and prints out the header and TOC of a custom
format dump.

cheers

andrew