Excerpts from Daniel Farina's message of vie nov 11 16:08:01 -0300 2011:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Nikhil Sontakke <nikkhils@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>
> >> But if it's deemed to be a
> >> problem, I want to see a solution that's actually watertight.)
> >>
> >
> > After Daniel's hunch about pg_dump barfing due to such leftover entries
> > proving out to be true, we have one credible explanation (there might be
> > other reasons too) for this long standing issue. I see some reports from as
> > early as 2004 and some as latest as Feb, 2011!
>
> The 2004 report was in version 7.3, released in 2002. So it's Very
> Nearly a ten year old bug, and may very well go back further back in
> time.
Wasn't 7.3 the release that introduced schemas in the first place? I
wonder if there's any other kind of "container" sort of object that
could present a similar problem, in releases prior to that.
If we delay fixing it for 16 more days, it would last nine years.
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