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Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?

Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>

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From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-06-04T19:37:14Z
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On 6/4/24 13:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:55 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
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>     On 6/4/24 11:40, Shaheed Haque wrote:
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>     > We use it. I bet lots of others do too.
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>     Of course.  There are lots of small, real, useful databases in the
>     wild.
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> But why tar instead of custom? That was part of my original question.
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That I can't say.  Familiarity?  Fewer keystrokes?

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  1. Add 'directory' format to pg_dump. The new directory format is compatible