On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 09:23 -0700, Scott Ribe wrote: > On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Brian Weaver wrote: > > > Thanks for the pointer. Is it just me that finds it the behavior of > > pg_restore odd? If the default installation since 9.0 has PL/PgSQL > > installed then why does pg_restore still emit statements to create the > > language? As a developer by trade it smells like a bug. > > It's pg_dump that's emitting the command to create the language. If you ran > pg_dump from 9.0+, it would not do so.
Not quite true. pg_dump from 9.0 does save the language definition, but it uses the new CREATE OR REPLACE statement for languages, so that, when you restore it in a 9.0+ database that already has the same language, it won't complain with an error message. BTW, it isn't odd that pg_dump 9.0 save the language definition. Having by default the plpgsql language when you create a database doesn't mean you can't drop it. > This is an example of why the standard advice for upgrading is to use the > newer pg_dump against the older database Exactly. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
