Re: Potential bug in pg_dump ...

At 14:10 17/12/01 -0500, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>Got a report the other day of a "problem" with pg_dump where, if in the
>middle of a dump, someone happens to drop a table, it errors out with:
>

pg_dump runs in a single TX, which should mean that metadata changes in
another process won't affect it. Have I misunderstood the way PG handles
metadata changes?


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