Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump again

Tom, is this fixed?



> Mikhail Terekhov <terekhov@emc.com> writes:
> > It seems that pg_dump (in 6.4.2) still has a problem when quoting
> > \ and ' when these characters appears together.
> > Consider the following example:
> > ... snip ...
> > terekhov(575)~>pg_dump -d -D -f ter.db terekhov
> 
> Ah, I see the problem: pg_dump's -d/-D option doesn't do quoting of
> special characters properly --- in fact, the only thing it does do
> is double-up single quote marks.  My testing was without that option ---
> without -d or -D, pg_dump uses COPY, which quotes everything properly.
> This is probably why most people weren't seeing a problem.
> 
> I'll put this on my to-do list for 6.5, but in the meantime, I'd suggest
> not using -d or -D... a dump script with one INSERT per table row is
> horribly slow compared to COPY anyway...
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
> 


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