
> - the default output file format is a custom format with compressed
> sections (the data dumps). It is NOT a text file.

Can this be turned off, or made to be feature, that you can turn on ? 
Imho most dumps will be piped to a locally 
optimized compressor (a tape, a storage manager, lzop, ...) anyway, 
thus most of the time a backup would compress twice.

Andreas

Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:56:36 +0200 
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: Modified pg_dump & new pg_restore need testing...