On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:28 AM, David Guimaraes <skysbsb(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> So I decided to try to understand the file format generated by
> pgdump. Analyzing the source code of pgdump/recovery, i concluded a few
> things:
>
> The header of the file always starts with "PGDMP" followed by pgdump version
> number used, followed by int size, offset, etc. followed by TOCs.
>
> My question is how to know the end of the file? Are there any signature that
> I can use? Or would have to analyze the whole file?
Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel? pg_restore is not available?
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Michael