Re: HELP! BUG? pg_dump mucks up grant/revoke

Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:

> On Friday 03 August 2001 16:35, Tom Lane wrote:
> > teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > > I'd hope for "yes", although the available patch should solve the
> > > problems for us (Red Hat Linux) as I'll add that.
>
> > Okay. If you're doing a rerelease of pg_dump, please also pick up the
> > REL7_1_STABLE commits I just made a few minutes ago; those clean up a
> > couple other bits of breakage...
>
> Whoa....
>
> A pg_dump that can't be restored should be a release forcer, IMHO. After
> all, we're talking about our only upgrade path here -- the last 7.1.x release
> _MUST_ be able to make a dump that 7.2 can reliably read!
>
> As PG 7.1 has never been released with an official Red Hat (it's in the
> Roswell beta, IIRC), 're-release' is a misnomer from RH's POV.
>
> I'm inclined to rerelease RPM's, though. Although I shouldn't call them
> '7.1.2' RPM's at that point -- although I have an intarray asynchrony now...

A set of RPMs with fixes from REL7_1_STABLE as of yesterday (and some
other minor fixes, related to the rpm) should be available from

http://people.redhat.com/teg/pg/

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.