Re: pg_dump --comment?

Jon Jensen wrote:

>On Fri, 28 May 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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>>>I've encountered a situation where I'd like to store some information 
>>>about the database when I do a pg_dump. For instance, the timestamp of 
>>>the dump. And some other information that I pull from the database.
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>>I think every dump should dump the timestamp regardless...
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>That would cause me a lot of trouble. Every night I do a pg_dump on all my
>databases to a temporary file. Then I use cmp to compare that dump to last
>night's dump. If they're identical I just delete the new dump so that only
>the old one remains, with its original timestamp. That way rsync doesn't
>see any change, and doesn't waste any time comparing it when we do
>backups. It's also handy to see the last day the dump changed by looking
>at the file's timestamp.
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>Granted, this is only of interest on databases that don't change at all, 
>but on a multi-user system we have a surprising number of databases that 
>don't change at all for days (alongside the ones that change all the time, 
>of course).
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>However, I would like to see an option to include the timestamp if someone 
>wants it.
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That makes sense.

A better answer to this particular problem might be incremental dumps, 
though :-)

cheers

andrew