Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump custom format without timestamp?

2012-08-03 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Tom, thanks for your answer, Fabien COELHO writes: I was looking into using hardlinks to reduce the storage of keeping and syncing periodic database dumps when they are identical. This works fine with the textual format, but not for the custom format because the file header includes a t

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump custom format without timestamp?

2012-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
Fabien COELHO writes: > I was looking into using hardlinks to reduce the storage of keeping and > syncing periodic database dumps when they are identical. This works fine > with the textual format, but not for the custom format because the file > header includes a timestamp set by function Writ

[HACKERS] pg_dump custom format without timestamp?

2012-08-03 Thread Fabien COELHO
Hello, I was looking into using hardlinks to reduce the storage of keeping and syncing periodic database dumps when they are identical. This works fine with the textual format, but not for the custom format because the file header includes a timestamp set by function WriteHead in file "src/b