Re: psql enhancement idea

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On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:03 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Uwe C. Schroeder" <uwe@oss4u.com> writes:
> > On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:40 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I don't think that conclusion follows from that premise.  In recent
> >> pg_dump versions (any that use a column list with COPY, which I think is
> >> 7.3 or later) there is no fundamental disadvantage to using COPY; it
> >> should be semantically equivalent to INSERT-with-column-list commands.
> >
> > The reason is that I made changes to the schema, i.e. changed the ordinal
> > position of columns and added some columns. Since the positioning of the
> > columns isn't the same anymore a copy will fail.
>
> No, it won't, not if you use a column list.

Ahhh - I see what you mean, thanks for that hint.

A little remark then: the pg_dump manpage (7.4.3) states

       --attribute-inserts
              Dump  data as INSERT commands with explicit column names (INSERT
              INTO table (column, ...) VALUES ...). This will make restoration
              very  slow,  but  it is necessary if you desire to rearrange the
              column ordering.

Maybe that should be fixed then. I was used to do the full insert statements
(ok, I've been using postgres long before it even had SQL) - maybe a old
habit then...

    Uwe

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