Aidan Van Dyk <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> AFAIK, that applies to parallel dumps of data (may help in --schema-only
>> dumps too), and what you are trying is for schema.
> Right, but one of the things it does is break the dump in to parts,
> and put them in a directory/file organization.
> Both are doing it for different reasons, but doing pretty much the
> same thing. But can the layout/organization of Joachim's patch can be
> made "human friendly" in the vein of Joel's vision?
I think they're fundamentally different things, because the previously
proposed patch is an extension of the machine-readable archive format,
and has to remain so because of the expectation that people will want
to use parallel restore with it. Joel is arguing for a split-up of
the text dump format.
regards, tom lane
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