Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Is there a particular advantage to that approach as opposed to just using
>> "directory" mode for everything?
> A gazillion files to deal with? Much easier to work with individual custom
> files if you're moving databases around and things like that.
> Much easier to monitor eg sizes/dates if you're using it for backups.
You can always tar up the directory tree after-the-fact if you want
one file. Sure, that step's not parallelized, but I think we'd need
some non-parallelized copying to create such a file anyway.
regards, tom lane
