Re: Custom format for pg_dumpall

At 02:00 AM 16/03/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Why is there no custom format dump option for pg_dumpall?
>
> > I think it is because we have no mechanism to merge multiple custom
> > format files from different databases into a single file.

That was the main reason (and as Tom suggested, dumpall was a shell script 
at the time).


>   Perhaps this
> > is a TODO.
>
>but offhand I see no fundamental obstacle
>now that pg_dumpall is a C program.

I agree.


>I'm envisioning
>some super-archive format in which there are individual entries
>containing the pg_dump output for each database

Not sure about this. I'd be inclined to investigate just adding another 
attribute to each TOC entry (database_name).


>This does seem like a nice solution to the perennial problem of dumping
>blobs easily.

What is this?

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