Wonderful news.
I just ran dump and restore against same production server. Constraints
and the absence of drop <object> calls appears to have saved my butt.
Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Is there a difference in the order of execution between an ascii dump
>> and one using the "custom" format? Or any difference in the general
>> operation?
>>
>
> There's not supposed to be. One standard test on the pg_dump code is
> pg_dump >textfile
> pg_dump -Fc >dumpfile
> pg_restore dumpfile >textfile2
> diff textfile textfile2
> If these don't produce the same results something is broken.
>
> regards, tom lane
>