Re: Restore problem

On Tuesday 28 December 2010 8:45:14 pm Bob Pawley wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Hodgson
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:12 PM
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem
>
> On December 28, 2010, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 12/28/2010 07:40 PM, Bob Pawley wrote:
> > >> Open the file in Wordpad and see if it looks better.
> > >>
> > >> I downloaded an sql editor and it looks the same in it as well.
> > >>
> > >> At least the editor will make it easier to fix the problem. However I
> > >> would like to know what happened so I can avoid it in the future.
>
> It's often a good idea to maintain function definitions outside the
> database,
> under version control, and apply them to the database from there.
>
> I would appreciate a more detailed explanation of this.

Version control is a good way of handling incremental updates to function
definitions when making changes to a live database. Also if the problem is one
of incompatible line endings than version control is not necessarily a
solution, you would just end up with multiple versions of the same problem:)
The point of a database dump is to capture the state of a database at a point
in time and recreate it, sort of a poor mans version control in itself.

>
> Bob
>

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Adrian Klaver
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