Ron Johnson <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Don't use --format=custom (and not -v either). That causes pg_dump to
>> include the OIDs and pg_dump object IDs of all the tables and other
>> objects,
> That's interesting. Why? (Since isn't it supposed to be Bad to rely on
> OIDs?)
-v in a text-format dump includes that data for debugging purposes:
--
-- TOC entry 1401 (class 1255 OID 16499)
-- Name: fipshash(text); Type: FUNCTION; Schema: public; Owner: postgres
--
(The "TOC entry" comment line wouldn't be there without -v.)
Then custom format has to store the same info so that pg_restore
can produce this identical text output on demand.
Yeah, this is all pretty historical, but nobody wants to change it
at this point.
regards, tom lane
