girish R G peetle <giri(dot)anamika0(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I just tracked pg_dump writing output to a file. (using procmon)
> As indicated below data is not written in serial fashion.
> If we use name pipe would this behavior cause problem ?
It's less efficient with a named pipe, yes, because then pg_dump
can't do that. But this doesn't prove anything one way or another
concerning your original complaint.
regards, tom lane