Pg_dump Backup Drops a Few Things

Folks,

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For some time on 7.2.1 I have suspected that one or two items from large,
complex databases was not getting backed up. However, I could not say
conclusively that this was the case, as it was always possible that I had
missed something somewhere.

Today I just got done with a very painful restore. PG_dump had failed to back
up a small view on which 6 other views and functions depended, and I had to
spend several hours editing the 99mb backup file by hand.

I'd like to work with someone on pinpointing the problem, as obviously this
could be a critical issue for production databases. However, I'm not sure
how to submit the files as they are very large (> 90mb) and how can I send
the original database not as a backup file?

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco