Re: Deprecating, and scheduling removal of, pg_dump's tar format.

[Andres Freund]

On July 26, 2018 8:14:57 PM PDT, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 26, 2018, at 20:09, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Do you, perhaps, have any insight into why those users are currently
>> using the .tar format?
>
>Inertia, in most cases; some of those procedures have been around since
>8.1 days.  Custom format (or a tar'd parallel dump) would be an
>undoubtedly superior choice.  A long depreciation window would cover a
>lot of those situations.

Yea, that obviously would be called for (see also the subject of my email). I'd 
assume we'd do something like deprecating the dump side in 12, removing it in 
13. The restore side would then be removed in 12+5. Or similar.

Andres
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