On Sep 28, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Ottavio Campana wrote:
> But why does pg_dump does not already exports data such that previous
> tables do not depend on successive ones?
Because you can't always sort your tables that way. The restore
procedure is responsible for either sorting or disabling the FK
checks during bulk load. The latter is more efficient, especially if
there are no indexes yet, as in a full restore from dump.