Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

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> > > I do think it would be a good idea if the pg_dumpall from the new release
> > > looked for these now-reserved column names and warned the user. You could
> > > then at least know where problems will occur. In upgrades from d/b versions
> > > which support ALTER TABLE xxx RENAME COLUMN yyy TO zzz, you would actually
> > > be able to do something about it before re-dumping...
> >
> > pg_dumpall is just a shell script.  You would have to do it in pg_dump.
> > I hesistate to meddle with that code unless I have good reason for it.
> Having psql core dump seems like a pretty good reason to me :-)

Tough to argue with this.

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> > We could have a separate function that scans pg_attribute looking for
> > bad column names.
> Whatever... This could be run as the first stage of pg_dumpall to say
> "Hey these column names are no longer allowed..."
>
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> Andrew
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