Hi Bruce and Tom,
I've got the picture now, thanks.
I'll be sure to test it all pretty thoroughly before the day anyway.
Thanks again.
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Iain" <iain@mst.co.jp>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>; <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore TODO - delay PK creation
> "Iain" <iain@mst.co.jp> writes:
>> IIRC there has been a bug fix to the COPY command, regarding handling
>> backslashed Ns or something like that sometime between 7.1 and 7.4, if I
>> dump the 7.1 db with the 7.4 version of pg_dump then do I get the fixes
>> to
>> COPY?
>
> My recollection is that some of those changes were on the backend side,
> and so they would affect the COPY data that pg_dump transcribes to the
> dump file. Using the newer pg_dump will not make you any worse off
> AFAIR, but it's not a magic fix for server-side bugs either ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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