Re: Small bug with numeric in 7.0 (also in 6.5.3)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Raul Chirea <raul(at)brahms(dot)ro>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Small bug with numeric in 7.0 (also in 6.5.3)
Date: 2000-05-15 14:06:40
Message-ID: 26688.958399600@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com> writes:
> $ pg_dump cs1 -o > /tmp/x.dump
> parseNumericArray: bogus number

IIRC, this is what you see when you run a 6.5 pg_dump against a 7.0
database (or perhaps it was vice versa).

There's been talk of putting stricter version checking into pg_dump,
but that might introduce its own problems...

regards, tom lane

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