Re: pg_dump, BLOBs and single-table dumps - RFC

> Also, scanning through the backup file for BLOBs used in the table to be
> restored will be slow, to say the least. It can be done in one pass by
> building an indexed temporary table with all OID fields from the target
> table, but it is definitely getting messy. Especially since Jan was talking
> about a decent BLOB implementation RSN.
> 
> My inclination at this stage is to disallow --blobs when dumping or
> restoring a single table, but I would be interested in hearing from anybody
> with a better solution.

I agree.

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