Got interested recently in speed of pg_dump. Specifically, if, over the years, it has became faster, and if yes, how much.| select * from depesz;
On 4th of April 2025, Andrew Dunstan committed patch: Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore pg_dumpall acquires a new -F/--format option, with the same meanings as pg_dump. The default is p, meaning plain text. For any other value, a directory is created containing two files, globals.data and map.dat. The first contains SQL … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 18 – Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore"| select * from depesz;