David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:03:00AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Did anyone provide a convincing use case for this?
> I've had one so far, and it was enough to cause me to make a special
> patched version of pg_dump. To get some idea of how drastic that was,
> consider that I think it's generally bad practice to compile from
> source because it can take you too far off the "generally supported
> software" map. The case I had was making a database with a schema and
> initial data whose dump output gets checked into a source code
> management system.
So? Don't tell me your SCMS can't handle tabs.
regards, tom lane