Re: pg_dump: Sorted output, referential integrity

At 15:16 7/12/01 +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
>>
>> Not really very generalizable when you consider user defined types,
>> triggers etc.
>
>Hmmm. But if we have a primary key on columns (A,B,C) and request the data
>'order by A,B,C' this should be portable, shouldn't it?
>If we don't have a primary key simply ordering by 1,2,3,...n should also
work.
>Or am I missing something?

My mistake; I thought you wanted to compare metadata. Sorting data by PK
seems like a reasonable thing to do.


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