Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what others think, but the proposed wording seems a
> bit hard on plain text dumps to me.
Agreed. I don't know how many times I've piped the output of
pg_dump to the input of psql. Certainly that was very common
before pg_upgrade was available. And for development purposes a
text script file is often exactly what is needed -- to store it in
custom format first would just be an extra step which would waste
time. Since I got my head around PITR dumps, I've rarely had a
reason to use the pg_dump custom format, myself.
-Kevin