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Re: directory archive format for pg_dump

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, José Arthur Benetasso Villanova <jose.arthur@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-12-16T20:28:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On 12/16/2010 03:13 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> So how bad would it be if we committed this new format without support
> for splitting large relations into multiple files, or with some stub
> support that never actually gets used, and fixed this later?  Because
> this is starting to sound like a bigger project than I think we ought
> to be requiring for this patch.

I don't think we have to have that in the first go at all. Parallel dump 
could be extremely useful without it. I haven't looked closely, but I 
assume there will still be an archive version recorded somewhere. When 
we change the archive format, bump the version number.

cheers

andrew