Re: Freeze when trying to run a pg_dump backup file as SQL query

No comments at all? Can anyone else at least repro this?

On 6/07/2012 10:33 PM, Evan Martin wrote:
> I've reliably reproduced the freezing bug I mentioned before (in the
> suggestion to save query text). pgAdmin freezes when I try to run a
> backup file created by pg_dump from an SQL query window. The file
> contents look like this:
>
> COPY much_data (some_data) FROM stdin;
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> \.
>
> When I run that the output window shows:
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "BLAH"
> LINE 2: BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/...
>
> That's fine (well, it would be nice if pgAdmin supported restoring
> such files, but that's another story) - but then it freezes. It
> doesn't happen with 5 lines as above, but if I have 100 lines of data
> that's enough to make it freeze for a few seconds. With a real back-up
> file of 1 MB or more it probably won't come back any time soon and has
> to be killed. (It doesn't need to be real data - just copy/paste the 5
> BLAH lines above 20 times to reproduce the problem.)
>
> I'm running pgAdmin 1.14.3 running on Windows 7 (x64), PostgreSQL 9.1.3
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan
>