On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:54 -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "JD" == Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
>
> JD> 2. Fix the input/output functions in a special mode for dump/reload,
> JD> to make them true inverses.
>
> That can be done by supporting the %A printf(3)/scanf(3) format.
I don't happen to see a %A format in the man page, but I doubt the
output would look like a timestamp. And if it doesn't look like a
timestamp, it violates the spirit of a logical dump of the data.
We could just base64-encode the binary and print that, but that doesn't
maintain the spirit of a logical data dump either.
Regards,Jeff Davis