Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-01T02:06:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes: > Do you have a alternate suggestion as to how to solve the problems it has > backing up the regression DB? One possibility is to fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to maintain the same column ordering in parents and children. COPY with specified columns may in fact be the best way to deal with that particular issue, if pg_dump is all we care about fixing. However there are a bunch of things that have a problem with it, not only pg_dump. See thread over in committers about functions and inheritance. regards, tom lane