Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall

On 2024-06-10 Mo 12:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>> Is there a particular advantage to that approach as opposed to just using
>>> "directory" mode for everything?
>> A gazillion files to deal with? Much easier to work with individual custom
>> files if you're moving databases around and things like that.
>> Much easier to monitor eg sizes/dates if you're using it for backups.
> You can always tar up the directory tree after-the-fact if you want
> one file. Sure, that step's not parallelized, but I think we'd need
> some non-parallelized copying to create such a file anyway.
>
>

Yeah.

I think I can probably allow for Magnus' suggestion fairly easily, but
if I have to choose I'm going to go for the format that can be produced
with the maximum parallelism.

cheers

andrew

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