Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Purpose of pg_dump tar archive format?
Date: 2024-06-04 15:25:05
Message-ID: CANzqJaCMR-5eLMYy0ukywWeKpwySCAMQRrgKmW7A2CZ-mr9+0Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 10:43 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 6/4/24 05:13, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > It doesn't support compression nor restore reordering like the custom
> > format, so I'm having trouble seeing why it still exists (at least
> > without a doc warning that it's obsolete).
>
> pg_dump -d test -U postgres -Ft | gzip --stdout > test.tgz
>

Who's got meaningful databases that small anymore?

And if you've got meaningfully sized databases, open port 5432 and move
them using pg_dump.

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