[hahainternet]

> No view update support

9.3

> No partitioned view support

Inheritance (ish)

> No sane backup/restore process

wat

> doesn't support backing up and restoring the database in binary format

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-pgbasebackup.h... is half of what you want, but I expect you're wanting something I don't expect.

[ssmoot]

I want to be able to say: BACKUP clientdb_a, get a clientdb_a.bak file, and be able to restore it without statement generation.

Which seems like a reasonable baseline expectation if you were to ask a lay-person what they'd imagine a database backup to be. pgbasebackup can't do that without some serious constraints (like, you only have a single database in your PGDATA).