Re: Avoid useless retrieval of defaults and check constraints in pg_dump -a

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:14:50AM +0200, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> Note that those extraneous queries were found while trying to dump
> data out of a corrupted database.  The issue wasn't an excessive
> runtime but corrupted catalog entries, so bypassing this code (since I
> was only interested in the data anyway) was simpler than trying to
> recover yet other corrupted rows.

Yeah, I don't see actually why this argument can prevent us from doing
a micro optimization if it proves to work correctly.
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Michael