Re: backup.sgml WIP (patch included)

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> A change I did not make per Craig Ringer (and plenty of other people through
> the years):
>
> "Instead we should be advising people to use pg_dump -Fc and pg_restore as
> their default and primary method of dumping a database. It is rarely
> desirable to use text dumps and if pg_dump was being written now, it'd
> surely default to -Fc ."
>
> I think we really need to think about this.

Yeah, this makes sense, except that if you want parallel dump (and many
people do) you need -Fd.

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