Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?

From: Gavin Roy <gavinr(at)aweber(dot)com>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
Date: 2024-06-04 19:47:22
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> But why tar instead of custom? That was part of my original question.
>

I've found it pretty useful for programmatically accessing data in a dump
for large databases outside of the normal pg_dump/pg_restore workflow. You
don't have to seek through one large binary file to get to the data section
to get at the data.

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