Re: Call for pg_dump testing

Hey Tom,

> I have committed some fairly wide-ranging revisions to pg_dump to make
> it dump database objects in a "safe" order according to the dependency
> information available from pg_depend.  While I know that I have fixed
> a lot of previously-broken cases, it's hardly unlikely that I've broken
> some things too.  Please give it a try if you can.  CVS-tip pg_dump
> should be fully compatible with 7.4 installations, and reasonably
> compatible with 7.3 servers as well (but its output is unlikely to
> load into pre-7.3 servers because of syntax changes).

Awesome effort!

I'm interested to know how you deal with circular dependencies in Views 
and Functions?

Also, what happens if I delete a key dependency from my pg_depend table 
manually?

Chris