Horton

Re: pg_dump & performance degradation

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

View thread
From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, brianb-pggeneral@edsamail.com
Date: 2000-08-01T04:15:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.




- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
  Nature photos, on-line guides, Pacific Northwest
  Rare Bird Alert Service and other goodies at
  http://donb.photo.net.