Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> Still, apart from lack of interest from developpers and/or resources, is
> there some reason we don't have a pg_dump --binary option?

It seems rather antithetical to one of the main goals of pg_dump,
which is to provide a dump that can reliably be loaded onto other
machines or newer versions of Postgres.  I don't think that we
should provide such a foot-gun in hopes of getting relatively
minor performance improvements; especially when we have not
exhausted the alternatives.
        regards, tom lane