Re: BUG #11991: dangerous action of pg_dump

On 11/17/2014 1:42 PM, tomek(at)rai(dot)pl wrote:
> Bug reference: 11991
> Logged by: Tomasz Kimaczynski
> Email address:tomek(at)rai(dot)pl
> PostgreSQL version: 9.2.9
> Operating system: Windows 2003,2008,2012 & FreeBSD
> Description:
>
> Recently, I realized pg_dump dangerous activity. In case when no dump is
> made because of any error, created file size is 0 bytes. In case when this
> file is used in simple backup procedure which make copy of dump file - 0
> bytes files overwrite earlier correct dump files.
> And we have no copies.
> Conclusion: pg_dump can not create 0 bytes files - it should create
> nothing.
> I think it's important.

perhaps your pg_dump script should check for errors from the pg_dump
run, and if any errors, delete the erroneous dump.

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