Re: [PATCH] 8.5 TODO: Add comments to output indicating version of pg_dump and of the database server

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From: Jim Cox <shakahshakah@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Date: 2009-09-29T13:58:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Jim Cox escribió:
>
>> Attached s/b a patch for the 8.5 TODO "Add comments to output indicating version
>> of pg_dump and of the database server" (pg_dump/pg_restore section, 9.2).
>
> Hmm, what happens if you do a pg_dump -Fc?  Is this info saved anywhere
> in the dump?  Surely if thi is useful in the text dump, it is useful in
> the binary format dumps too.

(forgot to reply all)

pg_restore's "-l, --list print summarized TOC of the archive" option
does display the information in custom format dumps, e.g.:

prompt$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_restore -l < /tmp/mytest.dump
;
; Archive created at Tue Sep 29 13:48:37 2009
;     dbname: mytest
;     TOC Entries: 9
;     Compression: -1
;     Dump Version: 1.11-0
;     Format: CUSTOM
;     Integer: 4 bytes
;     Offset: 8 bytes
;     Dumped from database version: 8.4.0
;     Dumped by pg_dump version: 8.4.0