Re: pg_restore woes..

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 02 January 2003 18:41, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 January 2003 17:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Upgrade to 7.3.  There were some bugs in the TOC handling in 7,2.X.
>
> > > I can't believe that's the best advice, given that the migration from 7.2
> > > to 7.3 isn't the easiest one on the world.
>
> > At the time I did the fix, I could have backpatched, but the number of
> > fixes was extensive.  There were several places where the TOC tag didn't
> > match the object name, and once I was done it wasn't safe enough to
> > backpatch.
>
> Ok, fair enough.  As it is more annoyance than anything, and since your expert
> opinion is that it wasn't 'safe' to backpatch, then that probably was a good
> call.  I just wanted to add that the fix could be a worse thing than the
> problem.

It was one of those, "X doesn't work" and when you go to fix X, you find
A-F doesn't work either.  :-(  Then you start ripping things apart to
fix it.

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