Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 12:15 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why exactly does pg_restore need to parse the SQL anyway?

> It just looks for complete statements. From memory it relates to the 
> possibility that TOC entries can have more than one statement, or it may 
> relate to handling COPY statements. I think it has to look for 
> PQresultStatus(...) == PGRES_COPY_IN for each statement it executes, so it 
> needs to pass statements one at a time.

Hm.  But we could assume that a COPY will be all by itself in a TOC
entry, couldn't we?

                        regards, tom lane

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