Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Well, it isn't going to help us for 8.1 because 8.0 will not have it,
> and if we add the clause we make loading the data into previous releases
> harder.
pg_dump output in general is not compatible with prior releases. It
would be a nice feature to have, but until we have it, I don't see that
changing or not changing the COPY syntax will make a major difference to
dump backward compatibility.
-Neil