Re: pg_dump and BINARY mode COPY

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> To preserve platform and version independence of the dump.

> Only if there is a risk. Since a common route to upgrade is a
> dump/restore back onto same box it seems worth having an option to do
> this.

I think you missed the point about version independence.  That would be
exactly the scenario where a version-to-version change in binary format
--- for instance, "money" widening to 64 bits in 8.3 --- would burn you.

Furthermore, this doesn't seem like a scenario where performance ought
to be the primary concern.  How often do you do major version upgrades?
        regards, tom lane