Re: pg_dump

At 17:36 17/03/01 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>I know that new pg_dump can dump out large objects. But what about
>pg_dumpall? Do we have to dump out a whole database cluster by using
>pg_dumpall then run pg_dump separetly to dump large objects?

That won't even work, since pg_dump won't dump BLOBs without dumping all
the tables in the database.


>That seems pain...

It is if you do not have individual database backup procedures; but
pg_dumpall uses the plain text dump format, which, without changes to
lo_import, can not restore binary data. If lo_import could load UUENCODED
data from STDIN, then maybe we could get it to work. Alternatively, we may
be able to put an option on pg_dumpall that will dump to one long script
file with embedded TAR archives, but I have not really looked at the option.


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