Re: pg_dump --data-only problem with PgSQL 8.0

On 2005-01-24 13:46-0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jani Averbach <jaa(at)jaa(dot)iki(dot)fi> writes:
>
> > This will fail with lots of these kinds of errors:
> > ERROR: insert or update on table "mytable"
> > violates foreign key constraint "mytable_myattr_fkey"
>
> Try it with --disable-triggers.
>
Thanks a lot! That fixed it.

> > Or have I found an ordering bug with pg_dump
> > when you are doing "--data-only" dumps?
>
> No. pg_dump can't guarantee a safe order for loading data when there
> are pre-existing foreign key constraints in place (since the constraints
> could be circular, and it wouldn't necessarily know what they are anyway).
> So it doesn't try. You have to use --disable-triggers instead.

I was wondering because data-only load from a dump generated with 7.2.5
succeeded, but data only load with dump genererated from 8.0.0
didn't. Any way, it works now, thank you for your help!

BR, Jani

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Jani Averbach