Re: CSV mode option for pg_dump

Already on TODO:

pg_dump:
         o %Add CSV output format


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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Something someone said on IRC just now triggered a little memory  ... I 
> > think we should provide an option to have pg_dump work in CSV mode 
> > rather than text mode. This probably doesn't have much importance in the 
> > case of text dumps, but in custom or tar dumps where you might want to 
> > get at individual data members, having an option for CSVs that you want 
> > to load into some other product might be nice.
> 
> This is silly.  You'd just COPY the particular table you want, not use
> pg_dump.  pg_dump's already got an unreasonably large number of options
> without adding ones that have essentially zero use.  Also, I think there
> are sufficient grounds to worry about whether a CSV dump would always
> reload correctly --- we already know that that's a poorly thought out
> "standard".
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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