On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:40:18AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Jim Michaels<jmichae3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > could somebody rewrite pg_dumpall and pg_dump so that it makes editable
> > dumps?
> > most programmer's text editors can't handle more than 2000
> > characters per line. and I want to be able to edit my dumps.
>
> When I need to make changes to large dumps I use tools like sed, awk
> and diff, not a text editor.
Indeed, but I still like to be able to use a text editor to verify that
my code is doing the right thing. Obviously for large files (i.e. a GB
and over) it's not going to work, but I'd still expect tools to work
("less -n" seems to be my tool of choice at the moment).
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