Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dump comments on large objects in text mode
Date: 2005-06-30 03:44:58
Message-ID: 14184.1120103098@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-patches

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:05:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That's pretty icky :-(. I think the right way is more like this.

> Wow, that's complex. No wonder I wasn't able to come up with a patch to
> dump ALTER DATABASE commands some time ago.

The trick in hacking pg_dump is to understand which layer you need to
modify. The whole thing seems overly complex to me :-( ... but
redesigning it is a project for another release cycle.

regards, tom lane

(BTW: Alvaro, I've been having direct mail to you bounce lately ---
let's see if this goes through ...)

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2005-06-30 03:49:34 Re: Open items
Previous Message Satoshi Nagayasu 2005-06-30 03:29:42 Re: Open items