Re: pg_dump: Sorted output, referential integrity

At 13:34 7/12/01 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
>Well, the biggest thing I see on using alter table add constraint for
>foreign keys is the expense involved if you do it after the tables are
>populated.

Is it really worse than loading the tables with the constraint in place?


>I chose the theoretical cleanliness of checking each row
>using the code we had over the speed of doing a special check for the
>alter table case,

Out of curiosity - what was the difference?

By the sounds of it, we may get 'alter table' in pg_dump by 7.3 or 7.4.


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