Re: Making pg_dump cvs friendly

Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> I have created a patch to postgresql 7.3.3 to make pg_dump more CVS
> friendly. Basically, pg_dump numbers all of it's TOC entries. Therefore,
> if you modify or recreate a view that used to be at the beginning, then
> ALL of your tables/indexes/etc get renumbered, which causes a lot of junk
> in your CVS.
>
> Anyway, the patch is at
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/pgdump-cvs-patch.diff
>
> Comments welcome, but this is my first patch, so please be gentle :)

7.5 will no longer output TOC numbers or oids unless you specify
--verbose in the dump, so these new pg_dump options are no longer
required. Thanks.

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