Geoffrey Wossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apparently PostgreSQL 7.1.3 didn't really enforce the length on VARCHAR(#)'s,
> which is why this never caused a problem with it.
Well, it did, but it did silent truncation instead of complaining.
This was determined to be not spec compliant ...
> Now, why did this all work fine if I added "-D" to pg_dump/pg_dumpall?
> Shouldn't that have failed for the same reason?
Yeah, it sure should have. Can you compare the two dumps to see what's
different besides the data proper?
regards, tom lane
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