Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run(at)gmail(dot)com>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Srinath Reddy <srinath2133(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
Date: 2025-03-11 21:03:09
Message-ID: 202503112103.fltgs54vpq6f@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2025-Mar-11, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> I'm not sure everyone thinks that was a good idea for backup manifests (in
> fact I know some don't), and it seems somewhat like overkill for a simple
> map of oids to database names.

If such a simple system can be made to work for all possible valid
database names, then I agree with you. But if it forces us to restrict
database names to not contain newlines or other funny chars that are so
far unrestricted, then I would take the other position.

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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"La victoria es para quien se atreve a estar solo"

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