On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:00 +0100, Mario Weilguni wrote: > Hi, > > I've a problem with a database, I can dump the database to a file, but > restoration fails, happens with 8.1.4.
I reported the same problem a while back: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-10/msg00246.php Some people think it's a bug, some people don't. It is technically documented behavior, but I don't think the documentation is clear enough. I think it is a bug that should be fixed, and here's another message in the thread that expresses my opinion: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-11/msg00033.php If you look at that email, it includes some examples of surprising behaviors caused by that bug, particularly with bytea. In some applications (for which it's impractical to change the source code), I actually use a CHECK constraint (which raises an exception on invalid utf8 data) on every text column so that some binary data doesn't break my slony replication. I'd like to see this fixed. Regards, Jeff Davis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
