Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Since there's no performance difference at pg_dump time, I can't see any
>> advantage to freezing your decision then.
> I understand, and if everyone used pg_restore, then adding a flag to
> pg_restore to do this would make sense. However, everyone is used to
> treating that dump file as a simple dump and throwing it into psql.
So? A GUC variable could be set equally easily either way. In fact
more so.
> Psql doesn't have any special dump flags, so you have to do the
> environment variable trick,
You forgot SET ...
regards, tom lane