Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes
Date: 2006-05-18 04:41:29
Message-ID: 87lkt0osg6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote:
>
> > I thought the suggested procedure (see migration doc) was to use the
> > new pg_dump to dump the older db version, so why backpatch ?
>
> Uh, you can suggest it, but I would guess < 50% do it, and once the old
> database is gone, there is no way to re-do the dump.

I thought the plan was to have one version that supported
standards_conforming_strings but defaulted to false anyways. So this would
only bite people who were jumping over an entire major release.

--
greg

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