On 19 September 2013 14:42, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote:
> > > PostBooks distributes their schema as a Postgres binary dump file for > use with pg_restore > > They are available for download here (not in the source tarball): > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks/files/03%20PostBooks-databases/4.1.0/ > > Is this format suitable for making a source package or do we need to > load it into Postgres and then pg_dump it again as text / SQL? > > I would prefer to simply distribute the original files so that people > can compare with upstream's checksums if they wish. > FWIW, you can convert the file to text using pg_restore, you don't actually need a running database server. It's really just a compressed tarball and should be treated as such. That is, I think it can be included as-is. Unless you're thinking of patching it, in which case you need to think of something else. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
