Re: Fixing pg_dump

>>I intend to make new archives created with 7.5 pg_dump have the fix, and 
>>  restoring pre 7.5 binary dumps will have exactly the previous 
>>behaviour.  The reason for this is that extracting the acls and owners 
>>to the end requires scanning the entire archive twice - not necessarily 
>>something we want to do (is it?)
> 
> I might be wrong about this, but I had the idea that the entire archive
> TOC gets loaded into memory, and so there'd be no noticeable penalty in
> scanning it twice.

Well, it probably gets scanned twice to do -c mode?

But...it seems kind of hacky to scan it again for owners and privs - are 
you sure you want me to go that way?

Chris