Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?
Date: 2003-11-22 21:53:59
Message-ID: 3FBFDAF7.8090703@pse-consulting.de
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Stephan Szabo wrote:

>You're going to potentially have the constraints scattered in any case due
>to circular dependency chains. I'd think that having all the constraints
>in one place would be easier than trying to go through the list of tables
>that might be in a circular chain in order to find the constraints.
>
>
I still disagree. cyclic dependencies should be avoided anyhow. You'll
get an awful lot of trouble loading data in such a case. Some database
systems refuse to create such stuff right away (mssql).

Regards,
Andreas

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