Re: Re: pg_dump scripts are no longer ordinary-user friendly

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: pg_dump scripts are no longer ordinary-user friendly
Date: 2001-03-06 03:32:15
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20010306143215.029abc90@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 22:26 5/03/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>> Should we have an option to turn off this feature entirely?
>
>Now that you mention it, is it a feature at all? Or a bug? ISTM poor
>form for a data-only restore to assume it may turn off all pre-existing
>triggers.

Do you recall any of the history - why was it added in the first place? I
vaguely recall something about doing a schema restore then data restore. In
this case, you need to disable triggers, but maybe that should be an option
only. ie. default to no messing with pg_class, but if the user requests it,
output code to disable triggers.

The only thing that worries me in this, is that we are changing the
behaviour from 7.0.

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