Re: pg_dump, formats & blobs

At 01:14 14/04/01 +0200, Mathijs Brands wrote:
...
>sol2:~$ pg_dump -b -Fc -f blaat.bk blaat
>sol2:~$ pg_restore -l blaat.bk
...
>;
>; Archive created at Sat Apr 14 01:03:02 2001
...

This all looks fine.


>sol2:~$ pg_dump -b -Ft -f blaat.tar blaat
>zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  pg_dump -b -Ft -f blaat.tar blaat

This is less good. It's caused by the final part of TAR output, which also
dumps a plain SQL script for reference (not actually ever used by
pg_restore). I will fix this in CVS; ctx->filename is set to null for this
script, and my compiler outputs '(null)', which is very forgiving of it. 


>
>Could this be caused by the fact that IMHO blobs aren't dumped correctly?
>

Is there some other problem with BLOBs that you did not mention? AFAICT,
this is only a problem with TAR output (an will be fixed ASAP). 


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