On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > My point is more that it forces users to make choices whenever they use > pg_dump. And the tar format has plenty downsides that aren't immediately > apparent. By keeping something with only a small upside around, we > force users to waste time.
Yeah, I admit that's a valid argument. >> Why did we invent "custom" format dumps instead of using a standard >> container-file format like tar/cpio/zip/whatever? > > Because they're either not all that simple, or don't random read access > inside. But that's just a guess, not fact. Mmm. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
