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Re: beta6 pg_restore core dumps

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, Martin Renters <martin@datafax.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-18T02:08:54Z
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Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> Considering that the data we are working with is binary, and may contain
>> nulls, any code that insisted on null-termination would probably be ipso
>> facto broken.

> But we're not; this is the same code that sends the COPY output back to PG.

Oh, isn't this the code that pushes large-object bodies around?  I
should think the problem would've been noticed much sooner if not...

			regards, tom lane