Re: Re: pg_dump tries to do too much per query

At 11:37 18/09/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> FWIW, the patch below causes get_viewdef to produce:
>> ERROR: pg_get_viewdef: cache lookup of attribute 1 in relation 19136
>> failed for rule v_test
>> when a table has been deleted.
>
>Not much of a solution --- or do you propose to go through and hack up
>every elog in every routine that could potentially be called during
>pg_get_ruledef?

Well, I had assumed that most routines/subsystems would identify themselves
as sources of errors, and that the behaviour of pg_get_viewdef was unusual.
Even the existing code for get_viewdef tries to output it's name in most
places, just not all.

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