Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Something someone said on IRC just now triggered a little memory ... I > think we should provide an option to have pg_dump work in CSV mode > rather than text mode. This probably doesn't have much importance in the > case of text dumps, but in custom or tar dumps where you might want to > get at individual data members, having an option for CSVs that you want > to load into some other product might be nice.
This is silly. You'd just COPY the particular table you want, not use pg_dump. pg_dump's already got an unreasonably large number of options without adding ones that have essentially zero use. Also, I think there are sufficient grounds to worry about whether a CSV dump would always reload correctly --- we already know that that's a poorly thought out "standard". regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly