pg_dump

At 10:00 25/04/01 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

Does anybody know:

1) Is the tar/custom format of pg_dump is portable accross different
platforms?

It's supposed to be; if it's not, it's a bug.

2) if I want to dump out all of database cluster contents including
large objects, is following procedure correct?

(dump procedure)
pg_dumpall -g
pg_dump -F c .... for each database
:
:

(restore procedure)
initdb
psql template1 < dumpout_of_pg_dumpall
pg_restore ... for each database

Looks OK to me. You need a '-b' on the pg_dump (for BLOBS), and each dump
command will need to go to a separate file - it won't currently work if
multiple dumps are being sent to stdout.

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At 12:04 25/04/01 +1000, Philip Warner wrote:

it won't currently work if
multiple dumps are being sent to stdout.

This latter could be fixed (at least for 'c' format) by modifying pg_dump
to use open/read/write/lseek instead of fopen/fread/fwrite/fseek etc.

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