Re: Order in which tables are dumped

On 07/25/2018 10:43 AM, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> v8.4 if it matters.
>
> It looked like the tables were being backed up in alphanumeric order,
> but now I see that table "docformat" is being dumped *after* "doc_image".
>
> Are there some other rules besides alphabetical sorting?
>
>
> Is there some concern about the order? Lower case f comes after _ in ascii.

I'm tracking the progress of a very long backup, and the spreadsheet I using
(and gnu sort, too, and IIRC Postgres' own ORDER BY) sort based on the
current locale (en_US), whereas pg_dump sorts based on the C locale.  Thus,
things aren't as I expected.

> The only time it could possibly matter is on restore when there are
> references for foreign keys, but on a restore those are all done after the
> data is restored.

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