Re: dump, restore, dump yields differences

Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> writes:
> As part of testing the matview issues around dumping, I ran `make
> installcheck-world`, ran pg_dump to dump the regression database,
> loaded it into a new database, dumped the newly restored database,
> and compared the output files from the two pg_dump runs.� There
> were a few somewhat surprising differences, attached.� Do we want
> to worry about these, or leave them alone?

Those are expected.  You can trace the ALTER TABLE history of those
tables if you want to see why they're so odd, but basically there
are inheritance situations where it's hard to avoid this.
        regards, tom lane