Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Fixes for pg_dump and ownership/acl problems

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
If there's something missing in the format, I'd be inclined to add it. We've never promised to make dumps made by version X readable (or usable) by version X-1. We *do* the opposite, however, so you will probably still need to parse dump statements from old dump files. Unless we can back-patch.

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Fixes for pg_dump and ownership/acl problems

2004-07-09 Thread Philip Warner
At 12:19 PM 29/06/2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: It's hacky (although officially hacky :) ) in regards that it parses the dropStmt on each object to get the objects name. This is necessary because of an oversight in the initial design of the binary format. If there's something missing in t