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Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-03-09T17:39:20Z

> > 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...
> 
> pg_dumpall is just a shell script.  You would have to do it in pg_dump. 
> I hesistate to meddle with that code unless I have good reason for it. 
Having psql core dump seems like a pretty good reason to me :-)

> We could have a separate function that scans pg_attribute looking for
> bad column names.
Whatever... This could be run as the first stage of pg_dumpall to say
"Hey these column names are no longer allowed..."


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