Re: AW: Proposal: More flexible backup/restore via pg_dump

At 08:48 28/06/00 +1000, Giles Lean wrote:
>
>> Part of the motivation for this utility was to allow DBAs to fix the
>> ordering at restore time, but otherwise I totally agree. Unfortunately I
>> don't think the RI checks can be delayed at this stage - can they? 
>
>The current pg_dump handles the data and then adds the constraints.

Not as far as I can see; that's what I want to do, bu there is no
implemented syntax for doing it. pg_dump simply dumps the table definition
with constraints (at least on 7.0.2).

>Otherwise there are "chicken and egg" problems where two tables have
>mutual RI constraints.  Even at the tuple level two tuples can be
>mutually dependent.

Absolutely. And AFAICT, these happen with pg_dump.


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