> On 5 May 2025, at 23:37, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org> wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> which for starters means you'd have to write your own parser. >> Something that might integrate better is JSON; we already have >> code for that, and use-cases such as backup manifest files. > > JSON isn't very human-friendly for writing, it's more of a data > interchange format that happens to be human-readable. The thread for adding --filter to pg_dump discussed file formats at length, there might be learnings and arguments there which are of interest. https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRB10wvW0CC9Xq=1XDs=zcqxer3cblcnza+qix4cuh-...@mail.gmail.com -- Daniel Gustafsson