Re: pg_dump bug in 9.4beta2 and HEAD

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:03:57AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 08/14/2014 06:53 AM, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> >I'm seeing an assertion failure with "pg_dump -c --if-exists" which is
> >not ready to handle BLOBs it seems:
> >
> >pg_dump: pg_backup_archiver.c:472: RestoreArchive: Assertion `mark !=
> >((void *)0)' failed.
> >
> >To reproduce:
> >
> >$ createdb test
> >$ pg_dump -c --if-exists test  (works, dumps empty database)
> >$ psql test -c "select lo_create(1);"
> >$ pg_dump -c --if-exists test  (fails, with the above mentioned assertion)
> 
> The code tries to inject an "IF EXISTS" into the already-construct DROP
> command, but it doesn't work for large objects, because the deletion command
> looks like "SELECT pg_catalog.lo_unlink(xxx)". There is no DROP there.

The lo_* functions are probably too entrenched to be deprecated, but
maybe we could come up with DML (or DDL, although that seems like a
bridge too far) equivalents and use those.  Not for 9.4, obviously.

Cheers,
David.
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