Add 'directory' format to pg_dump. The new directory format is compatible

with the 'tar' format, in that untarring a tar format archive produces a
valid directory format archive.

Joachim Wieland and Heikki Linnakangas

doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml

@@ -76,11 +76,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    database are to be restored. The most flexible output file format is
    the <quote>custom</quote> format (<option>-Fc</option>). It allows
    for selection and reordering of all archived items, and is compressed
-   by default. The <application>tar</application> format
-   (<option>-Ft</option>) is not compressed and has restrictions on
-   reordering data when loading, but it is otherwise quite flexible;
-   moreover, it can be manipulated with standard Unix tools such as
-   <command>tar</command>.
+   by default.
   </para>
 
   <para>
@@ -194,8 +190,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>--file=<replaceable class="parameter">file</replaceable></option></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Send output to the specified file.  If this is omitted, the
-        standard output is used.
+        Send output to the specified file. This parameter can be omitted for
+        file based output formats, in which case the standard output is used.
+        It must be given for the directory output format however, where it
+        specifies the target directory instead of a file. In this case the
+        directory is created by <command>pg_dump</command> and must not exist
+        before.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -226,9 +226,28 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
           <para>
            Output a custom-format archive suitable for input into
            <application>pg_restore</application>.
-           This is the most flexible output format in that it allows manual
-           selection and reordering of archived items during restore.
-           This format is also compressed by default.
+           Together with the directory output format, this is the most flexible
+           output format in that it allows manual selection and reordering of
+           archived items during restore. This format is also compressed by
+           default.
+          </para>
+         </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+         <term><literal>d</></term>
+         <term><literal>directory</></term>
+         <listitem>
+          <para>
+           Output a directory-format archive suitable for input into
+           <application>pg_restore</application>. This will create a directory
+           with one file for each table and blob being dumped, plus a
+           so-called Table of Contents file describing the dumped objects in a
+           machine-readable format that <application>pg_restore</application>
+           can read. A directory format archive can be manipulated with
+           standard Unix tools; for example, files in an uncompressed archive
+           can be compressed with the <application>gzip</application> tool.
+           This format is compressed by default.
           </para>
          </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
@@ -239,13 +258,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
          <listitem>
           <para>
            Output a <command>tar</command>-format archive suitable for input
-           into <application>pg_restore</application>.
-           This output format allows manual selection and reordering of
-           archived items during restore, but there is a restriction: the
-           relative order of table data items cannot be changed during
-           restore.  Also, <command>tar</command> format does not support
-           compression and has a limit of 8 GB on the size of individual
-           tables.
+           into <application>pg_restore</application>. The tar-format is
+           compatible with the directory-format; extracting a tar-format
+           archive produces a valid directory-format archive.
+           However, the tar-format does not support compression and has a
+           limit of 8 GB on the size of individual tables. Also, the relative
+           order of table data items cannot be changed during restore.
           </para>
          </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
@@ -946,6 +964,14 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0;
 </screen>
   </para>
 
+  <para>
+   To dump a database into a directory-format archive:
+
+<screen>
+<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>pg_dump -Fd mydb -f dumpdir</userinput>
+</screen>
+  </para>
+
   <para>
    To reload an archive file into a (freshly created) database named
    <literal>newdb</>:

doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml

@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@
       <term><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-       Specifies the location of the archive file to be restored.
+       Specifies the location of the archive file (or directory, for a
+       directory-format archive) to be restored.
        If not specified, the standard input is used.
        </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -166,6 +167,16 @@
         one of the following:
 
        <variablelist>
+        <varlistentry>
+         <term><literal>d</></term>
+         <term><literal>directory</></term>
+         <listitem>
+          <para>
+           The archive is a <command>directory</command> archive.
+          </para>
+         </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
         <varlistentry>
          <term><literal>t</></term>
          <term><literal>tar</></term>