Re: - pg_dump issues

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 21:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> In the meantime, I think that we shouldn't mess with pg_dump's basically
> OID-order-driven dump ordering.  It works in normal cases, and adding
> arbitrary rules to it to fix one corner case is likely to accomplish
> little except breaking other corner cases.

I can see that Lamar and I are going to have major problems dealing with
users who fall over these problems.  There are some things that simply
cannot be handled automatically, such as user-written functions that
return opaque.  Then there are issues of ordering; and finally the fact
that we need to use the new pg_dump with the old binaries to get a
useful dump.

It seems to me that I shall have to make the new package such that it
can exist alongside the old one for a time, or else possibly separate
7.3 pg_dump and pg_dumpall into a separate package.  It is going to be a
total pain!

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