On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> That particular argument needs to be rejected vociferously. Okay, I will concede that part of my argument. And for the record, I've written pg_dump output parsing programs many times over the years, and seen others in the wild. It's not uncommon as some in this thread think. > What other part of pg_dump's output is not produced by default? > None, but that's kind of the point - this is a very special class of data (so much so, that we've been arguing about where it fits in our usual pre/data/post paradigm). So I don't think it's unreasonable that something this unique (and non-deterministic) gets excluded by default. It's still only a flag away if people require it. Cheers, Greg -- Crunchy Data - https://www.crunchydata.com Enterprise Postgres Software Products & Tech Support
