Re: Fixing pg_dump

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I intend to make new archives created with 7.5 pg_dump have the fix, and 
>   restoring pre 7.5 binary dumps will have exactly the previous 
> behaviour.  The reason for this is that extracting the acls and owners 
> to the end requires scanning the entire archive twice - not necessarily 
> something we want to do (is it?)

I might be wrong about this, but I had the idea that the entire archive
TOC gets loaded into memory, and so there'd be no noticeable penalty in
scanning it twice.
        regards, tom lane