"Rob Dean" <rob.dean@pressassociation.com> writes:
> The information on reordering at restore time is surely completely
> contradictory between the two. The 8.4 documentation is the same.
I'm sure that discrepancy goes way back :-(.
Some experimentation indicates that you can reorder some things but not
others --- in particular you can't pull two TABLE DATA sections from a
tar archive out-of-order. So it might be that someone thought the
restriction had been fixed based on limited testing, and changed one
of the items but missed the other.
I'll see about improving it.
regards, tom lane