Re: Re: [BUG?] tgconstrrelid doesn't survive a dump/restore

At 08:42 19/04/01 -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
>>
>> It's because pg_dump is not designed to dump these constraints *as*
>> constraints. We just need to make pg_dump clever enough to do that.
>
> IMHO there's nothing fundamentally wrong with having pg_dump
> dumping the constraints as special triggers, because they are
> implemented in PostgreSQL as triggers.

Not sure if it's fundamentally wrong, but ISTM that making pg_dump use the
SQL standards whenever possible will make dump files portable across
versions as well as other RDBMSs. It is also, as you say, more readable.

> and the required
> feature to correctly restore the tgconstrrelid is already in
> the backend, so pg_dump should make use of it

No problem there - just tell me how...

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