Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes
Date: 2006-05-17 15:27:33
Message-ID: E1539E0ED7043848906A8FF995BDA5790105459E@m0143.s-mxs.net
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> Very clear. The issue is that I can't find any of these emitted by a
> pg_dump version who's native backend doesn't understand them.
>
> I assume that it is expected that a cross-db dump/reload will generate
> errors, and it is done rarely for upgrades, but I assume same-version
> dump/restore is done more frequently and people don't expect errors.
> Is that not a significant distinction?

I thought the suggested procedure (see migration doc) was to use the
new pg_dump to dump the older db version, so why backpatch ?

Andreas

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