Jim Nasby <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> This could be avoided by using COPY BINARY format, but I don't see any >> very nice way to do that in the context of pg_dump --- it needs to >> intermix COPY data with SQL commands ... > Would the tar or custom format allow for this? IIRC, at least tar > puts all the copied data into separate files... Well, you could sorta do that, but the case that would stop working is pg_restore output to a plain text SQL script (and related issues such as the ability to use the feature in the context of pg_dumpall). Having just gotten done fixing similar inconsistencies in pg_dump/pg_restore for BLOBs, I'm not eager to re-introduce 'em for COPY BINARY ... regards, tom lane
