Re: backup.sgml WIP (patch included)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: backup.sgml WIP (patch included)
Date: 2015-06-02 20:04:52
Message-ID: 20150602200451.GI2988@postgresql.org
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> A change I did not make per Craig Ringer (and plenty of other people through
> the years):
>
> "Instead we should be advising people to use pg_dump -Fc and pg_restore as
> their default and primary method of dumping a database. It is rarely
> desirable to use text dumps and if pg_dump was being written now, it'd
> surely default to -Fc ."
>
> I think we really need to think about this.

Yeah, this makes sense, except that if you want parallel dump (and many
people do) you need -Fd.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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