Re: CSV mode option for pg_dump

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> 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