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Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-03-09T14:26:49Z

> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:
> 
> > > 	Then, using what was left, I did:
> > > 
> > > psql -e < db.dump 
> > > 
> > > 	Again.  Failed misearbly, with the following coming from the 'copy
> > > to <relname> from stdin;' section:
> > > 
> > > 344984  johnb   xgSldZdYEgIWo           clio.trends.ca  n       \N
> > 
> > I got something kind-of similar with a core dump... This was 'cos of a 
> > column name which is now a reserved word.
> 
> 	Ack, I fear you are correct...the third field above is 'password',
> which became a reserved word in v6.3...oh man, is this upgrade ever going
> to hurt...my 'db.dump' file is 84Meg...vi just loves it :)
> 
> 
I do think it would be a good idea if the pg_dumpall from the new release
looked for these now-reserved column names and warned the user. You could
then at least know where problems will occur. In upgrades from d/b versions
which support ALTER TABLE xxx RENAME COLUMN yyy TO zzz, you would actually
be able to do something about it before re-dumping...

Andrew

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