Re: pg_restore direct to database is broken for --insert dumps

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-01-06T00:01:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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I wrote:
> Not easily: there could be newlines embedded in data strings or SQL
> identifiers.  I'm not seeing any way around this except to restore the
> minimal lexing capability.  One thing we could probably do is to
> restrict it to be used only when reading table data, and continue to
> assume that object creation commands can be emitted as-is.  That would
> at least get us out of needing to parse dollar-quoted literals, which
> aren't used in the INSERT commands.

Attached is a patch that restores a much-simplified version of the mini
lexer; it deals only with the sorts of things that dumpTableData_insert
actually emits.  Fixing the standard_conforming_strings issue turns out
to be really a one-liner, because the setting is in fact readily
available to this code.  Maybe we should have done it that way to begin
with :-( ... though I admit to being glad to have gotten rid of the very
questionable dollar-quote-recognition code that was there before.

Barring objections to the approach, I'll apply and back-patch this
tomorrow.

			regards, tom lane