Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1
Date: 2000-11-08 16:24:05
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20001109032405.02be5100@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 11:13 8/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>Do we still need the lastsysoid column in pg_database if we do things
>this way? Seems like what you really want is to suppress all the
>objects that are in template0, so you really only need one lastsysoid
>value, namely template0's. The other entries are useless AFAICS.

That sounds reasonable; although there may be some value in allowing dumps
relative to template0 OR template1. Not sure.

Where would you store the value if not in pg_database?

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