Re: pg_restore

Tom Lane wrote on 28.10.2007 23:18:
> Oh, I just twigged that you are using a plain-SQL dump file (that is,
> you didn't specify -Fc or -Ft to pg_dump).  For plain-SQL dumps you
> should not use pg_restore at all; you feed those to psql.

While we are on the topic of pg_dump/pg_restore:

Why is it, that pg_dump can use a compressed output directly but pg_dumpall is
always using a SQL (i.e. "plain text") output?

Thomas