Re: In-order pg_dump (or in-order COPY TO)

Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-27T14:31:24Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net> writes:
> > Dump is from PostgreSQL 16, it's pg_dump writing to stdout:
>
> > pg_dump -v --format=custom --compress=none --no-toast-compression
> --serializable-deferrable db_name  |  borg create ...
>
> Don't use --format=custom (and not -v either).  That causes pg_dump to
> include the OIDs and pg_dump object IDs of all the tables and other
> objects,


That's interesting.  Why?  (Since isn't it supposed to be Bad to rely on
OIDs?)

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