Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: daveg <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Davy Durham <pubaddr5(at)davyandbeth(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression
Date: 2008-06-02 00:50:13
Message-ID: 20080602005013.GF31154@tamriel.snowman.net
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* daveg (daveg(at)sonic(dot)net) wrote:
> The feature that the proposed patch enables is to create pg_dump custom
> format archives for multiple tables with a predicate. No amount of csv or
> xml will do that. Contrived example:

Uh, pg_dump's custom format really isn't particularly special, to be
honest. Is there some reason you're interested in using it over, as was
suggested, COPY/CSV/etc format? You could, of course, gzip the output
of COPY (as pg_dump does) if you're concerned about space..

Thanks,

Stephen

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