Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-patches] pg_dump pretty_print

2007-01-30 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tom Lane wrote: The original definition of the prettyprint flag was that it'd produce a version that was nice to look at but not guaranteed to parse back exactly the same; in particular it might omit parentheses that perhaps were really

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-patches] pg_dump pretty_print

2007-01-26 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Peter Eisentraut replied: The harm here is that under undefined circumstances a dump file will not be a proper and robust representation of the original database, which would add significant confusion and potential for error. What

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-patches] pg_dump pretty_print

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Eisentraut replied: The harm here is that under undefined circumstances a dump file will not be a proper and robust representation of the original database, which would add significant confusion and potential for error. What undefined