Re: pg_dump and insert multi-rows option

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?iso-8859-15?q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <cedric(dot)villemain(at)dalibo(dot)com> writes:
> > Well, I can only make a new ask. Why is there the --inserts and
> > --attribute-inserts options ?
>
> It's mostly historical IMHO. The COPY option used to have bugs for
> corner cases like inheritance child tables that had been ALTERed
> after creation. That's all gone now. The only reason I can see to
> use these options today is if you want to try to port the dump to
> some other database ... and in that case you probably shouldn't
> assume multi-insert will work anyway.

I'm pretty sure it does in the current versions of most other DBMSs.

Cheers,
David.
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