Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I did some digging in the code and see that the TOC is more then that, > it stores a range of data. Still have not part where the offsets are > ignored for writes to stdout, but will keep on digging. The TOC is initially written out with zeroes for the offsets. Then the per-table data parts are written out, tracking where each one begins. At the end, if the output file is seekable, pg_dump seeks back to the start and re-writes the whole TOC section, now with data offsets populated. But output to a pipe won't be seekable. regards, tom lane
