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Re: pg_dump & performance degradation

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, brianb-pggeneral@edsamail.com
Date: 2000-08-01T04:26:06Z
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> At 11:41 PM 7/31/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >I am more concerned with giving people a pg_dump option of questionable
> >value.  I don't have problems adding it to the C code because it may be
> >of use to some people.
> 
> I'm uncomfortable because I know of no other *nix utility that has such
> options.
> 
> If they exist, can someone enumerate them?
> 
> It's hard to see why PG is such a special case in this regard, requiring
> such an overbearingly groty kludge.

Yes, agreed.  I read a nice article about Mozilla feature-creep, and how
it killed them:

	http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/07/31/

We have been pretty good about keeping ourselves lean and directed.

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