Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> At 12:15 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why exactly does pg_restore need to parse the SQL anyway?
> It just looks for complete statements. From memory it relates to the
> possibility that TOC entries can have more than one statement, or it may
> relate to handling COPY statements. I think it has to look for
> PQresultStatus(...) == PGRES_COPY_IN for each statement it executes, so it
> needs to pass statements one at a time.
Hm. But we could assume that a COPY will be all by itself in a TOC
entry, couldn't we?
regards, tom lane