Re: Header meaning for pg_dump

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Premsun Choltanwanich <Premsun(at)nsasia(dot)co(dot)th>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Header meaning for pg_dump
Date: 2006-11-07 10:06:22
Message-ID: 20061107100622.GB19789@svana.org
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:40:54AM +0700, Premsun Choltanwanich wrote:
> Dear Richard,
>
> Regarding the information you give to me, I understand that this
> information is a thing that normally used by PostgreSQL system. And
> the information seem to be placed on a comment area. So, Who need to
> have a clearly understanding on the header information?

AFAIK nothing (in the main distribution) actually uses it. It's more a
header for people while they're scanning the dump. It also makes a nice
anchor point for sed scripts if you want to extract a single object
from the dump.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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