Re: pgsql: Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore

On 2025-04-14 Mo 8:20 AM, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Apr-04, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore
> I think the new oid_string_list stuff in this commit is unnecessary, and
> we can remove a bunch of lines by simplifying that to using
> SimplePtrList, as the attached illustrates.  (Perhaps the names of
> members of the proposed struct can be improved.)


Sure, we can do it that way.


>
> I also propose to remove the open-coded implementation of pg_get_line.
>
> WDYT?


seems reasonable


>
> I'm also not sure about the double sscanf() business there ... There
> must be a better way to do this.



Yes, probably. I'll look into that if you like.


cheers


andrew

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