Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> Just wondering - when using a newer pg_dump to dump from an older Postgres, 
> does pg_dump automatically generate INSERT statements for the data rather 
> than using COPY?

No.

> I noticed this today when transferring data to a newer server - pg_dump 
> generated INSERTs although I didn't ask for them. Not a problem, but I was 
> curious.

Perhaps you included -d in the command line options?

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