On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 20:47, Gavin Roy <gav...@aweber.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> But why tar instead of custom? That was part of my original question. >> > > I've found it pretty useful for programmatically accessing data in a dump > for large databases outside of the normal pg_dump/pg_restore workflow. You > don't have to seek through one large binary file to get to the data section > to get at the data. >
This is true for us too; specifically, tar, including with compression, is very convenient for both CLI and Python ecosystems.
