Re: Potential bug in pg_dump ...

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Potential bug in pg_dump ...
Date: 2001-12-17 21:25:21
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20011218082521.039ccd40@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 14:10 17/12/01 -0500, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>Got a report the other day of a "problem" with pg_dump where, if in the
>middle of a dump, someone happens to drop a table, it errors out with:
>

pg_dump runs in a single TX, which should mean that metadata changes in
another process won't affect it. Have I misunderstood the way PG handles
metadata changes?

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