On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> But why tar instead of custom? That was part of my original question.
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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.