pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?

I have been speaking to Pavel about pg_dump support of blobs, and he thinks
it is important to allow for some kind of human-readable version of the
dump to be created.

My guess is that this will involve a plain text schema dump, followed by
all BLOBs in separate files, and a script to load them. To implement this
I'll obviosly need to be passed a directory/file location for the script
since I can't pipe seperate files to stdout.

I'd be interested in knowing what features people think are important in
this kind of format; what do you need to do with the blob files, what do
peple want to edit, etc etc.

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