Which is why having them on stdout is still a nice option to have. You can
pipe the lot through your favourite compressor (gzip, bzip2 etc) and
straight on to tape, or whatever.

I don't know why you would want them as separate files - just think what
would happen to directory search times!!

How about this as an idea:
	* Option to dump sql to stdout and blobs to a designated file
	* option to dump sql & blobs to stdout
	* option to dump just sql to stdout
	* option to dump just blobs to stdout

That way (depending on the database design), you could handle the sql &
blobs separately but still have everything backed up.

PS: Backups is formost on my mind at the moment - had an NT one blow up in
my face on Monday and it wasn't nice :-(

Peter

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Peter Mount
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Maidstone Borough Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Warner [mailto:pjw@rhyme.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:22 PM
To: Lamar Owen
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org;
Pavel@Janik.cz
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?


At 10:13 12/07/00 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
>Philip Warner wrote:
>> My guess is that this will involve a plain text schema dump, followed by
>> all BLOBs in separate files, and a script to load them. To implement this
>> I'll obviosly need to be passed a directory/file location for the script
>> since I can't pipe seperate files to stdout.
>
>uuencode the blobs, perhaps, using a shar-like format?

For the human readable version, the request was to make it editable and
sendable to psql. As a result the BLOBs need to be in their binary format
OR psql needs to support BLOB import from stdin. As a first pass I was
hoping for the simple 'dump them into files' solution.

What I am confused by is what people actually want to do with a load of
BLOBs sitting in a directory; if there are specific needs, then I'd also
like to cater for them in the custom file formats.


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Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:32:10 +0100
Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>
RE: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?