Ron Mayer wrote:
If one wanted to dump some postgres databases for long term archival storage (maybe decades), what's the recommended dump format? Is the tar or plain text preferred, or is there some other approach (xml? csv?) I should be looking at instead? Or should we just leave these in some postgres database and keep upgrading it every few years?
The version you dump it from is unlikely to be difficult to find ten years from now. I'd just make sure to append the pg version to the archive so it's obvious to any future data archaeologists what's needed to breathe life back into it.
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