From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Hartmut Goebel <h(dot)goebel(at)goebel-consult(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: BUG #5488: pg_dump does not quote column names -> pg_restore may fail when upgrading |
Date: | 2010-06-10 01:35:19 |
Message-ID: | 201006100135.o5A1ZJ320443@momjian.us |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > I think users would rather have the restore fail, and know right away
> > they have an issue, than to do the upgrade, and find out later that some
> > of their application queries fail and they need to run around fixing
> > them. ?(FYI, pg_upgrade would use the new pg_dump and would not fail.)
> >
> > In a way, the fact that the restore fails can be seen as a feature ---
> > they get the error before the go live on 8.4. ?(Yeah, I am serious.)
>
> Eeh, I've had this happen to me on earlier releases, and it didn't
> feel like a feature to me. YMMV, of course.
Would you have preferred later application failure?
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