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Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump

Florian G. Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>

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From: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-20T15:34:16Z
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On Jan20, 2011, at 16:22 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> You can put files in the archive in a certain order if you list them explicitly in the tar command line, like "tar cf backup.tar toc.dat ...". It's hard to know the right order, though. In practice you would need to do "tar tf backup.tar >files" before untarring, and use "files" to tar them again in the rightorder.

Hm, could we create a file in the backup directory which lists the files in the right order?

best regards,
Florian Pflug