| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> | 
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jürgen Strobel <juergen+pg(at)strobel(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump without explicit table locking | 
| Date: | 2014-03-17 23:15:50 | 
| Message-ID: | 10756.1395098150@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:
> On 3/17/14, 8:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> (Note that this is only one of assorted O(N^2) behaviors in older versions
>> of pg_dump; we've gradually stamped them out over time.)
> On that note, it's recommended that when you are taking a backup to restore into a newer version of Postgres you create the dump using the NEWER version of pg_dump, not the old one.
Right.  IIRC, the OP said he *did* use a recent pg_dump ... but this
particular issue got fixed server-side, so the new pg_dump didn't help
against an 8.1 server :-(
regards, tom lane
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