"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Not in any particularly useful way --- the plain text dump wouldn't >> really support selective restore, etc etc. > It would however lend to consistency in our user interface. It is really > quite silly that pg_restore can't restore the default backup method. I don't think it would be "consistent" for pg_restore to run, but have most of its useful switches either be ignored or cause failures. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general