| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(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 15:01:14 |
| Message-ID: | 1276182022-sup-2339@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mié jun 09 21:35:57 -0400 2010:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mi\xc3\xa9 jun 09 21:10:21 -0400 2010:
> >
> > > 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.)
> >
> > I think it is quite a stretch to consider this a feature.
>
> How about "a desireable behavior considering the alternatives"?
I'm with Robert Haas.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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