Re: CSV mode option for pg_dump

Bruce Momjian wrote:

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>As was stated before, the use-case for this is by people we don't
>normally have contact with.
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I do think we need a use case for what we do.

The main use case seems to me to be where you are exporting a whole 
database or most of it with a very large number of tables, and it is 
convenient to have all the CSVs created for you rather than have to make 
them manually one at a time. You could get these out of, say, a tar 
format dump very easily.

I said near the beginning of this that a pgfoundry project to create a 
tool for this might be an alternative way to go. If that's the consensus 
then Ok. I just bristle a bit at the suggestion that we might not get 
back what we started with from a CSV dump, because we can, AFAIK.

cheers

andrew