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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

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From: "Philip J. Warner" <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-06-22T06:32:56Z
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At 13:43 22/06/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
>Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>I'm wondering if pg_dump should store the location of the tablespace. If
>your machine dies, you get a new machine to re-create the database, you
>may not want the tablespace in the same spot. And text-editing a
>gigabyte file would be extremely painful.
>

This is a very good point; the way Dec/RDB gets around it is to allow the
'pg_restore' command to override storage settings when restoring a backup
file.


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