Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Changing dbdump output format

["Rivas, Jesse" <Je...@comcast.com>]

pg_restore cannot handle plain-text formats -- psql has to be used in order
to restore from .sql format.

Jesse

On 9/13/19, 10:21 AM, "Jeremy Mitchell" <mi...@gmail.com> wrote:

    If pg_restore can handle both (the current binary and your suggested plain
    sql) seamlessly then doesn't seem like a problem to me to change the format
    to plain SQL but i can't speak for everyone using this endpoint. is
    everyone using the endpoint's response in tandem with pg_restore?
    
    if it helps testability, i think your suggestion makes a lot of sense.
    
    jeremy
    
    On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:26 AM ocket 8888 <oc...@gmail.com> wrote:
    
    > I'm rewriting the dbdump endpoint (PR #3912) and the output format used by
    > Perl is a binary, compressed SQL script. It makes editing and even testing
    > just a bit harder than it could be. The data is still compressed for
    > transfers, but a plain SQL script is much easier for a human to analyze.
    > pg_restore can work with any format that pg_dump outputs - and it
    > automatically detects which one to use, so the user doesn't even need to
    > know, really.
    >
    > But is this a problem for anyone, for any reason?
    >