The trick in hacking pg_dump is to understand which layer you need to
modify. The whole thing seems overly complex to me :-( ... but
redesigning it is a project for another release cycle.
I just find the whole BLOB handling very tricky to understand :(
I vote that we combine pg_dumpall and pg_dump into a single app in the
future...
It should be possible to make them both work backward compatibly. Means
we can possibly gain custom format full cluster dumps.
Chris
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