Re: [HACKERS] Ordering of pg_dump output

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-02-08T16:38:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Yeah, it's a known bug.  We can't just dump the functions first,
> though, can we?  I'm not sure how carefully function definitions
> get examined by CREATE FUNCTION.
> 
> The simplest real solution I've heard so far is to dump database objects
> in order by OID rather than doing it strictly by type.
> 
> Is anyone working on this, or does anyone want to?  I haven't looked at
> pg_dump in a while, but I know some other folks have been hacking it
> recently.

I thought Peter E. was thinking about it.

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