Re: pg_dump: Remove "blob" terminology

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2022-12-02 Fr 09:18, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The scheme I've vaguely thought about, but not got round to writing,
>> is to merge all blobs with the same owner and ACL into one TOC entry.
>> One would hope that would get it down to a reasonable number of
>> TOC entries in practical applications.  (Perhaps there'd need to be
>> a switch to make this optional.)

> +1 for fixing this. Your scheme seems reasonable. This has been a pain
> point for a long time. I'm not sure what we'd gain by making the fix
> optional.

Well, what this would lose is the ability to selectively restore
individual large objects using "pg_restore -L".  I'm not sure who
out there might be depending on that, but if we assume that's the
empty set I fear we'll find out it's not.  So a workaround switch
seemed possibly worth the trouble.  I don't have a position yet
on which way ought to be the default.

			regards, tom lane