On 30/06/10 17:11, Robert Haas wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
Robert Haas<robertmh...@gmail.com>  writes:
My scintillating contribution to this discussion is the observation
that unrestorable dumps suck.

No doubt, but is this a real problem in practice?

Magnus tells me that that was what prompted his original email.

I've done it. Luckily only with a small and fully functioning database so I could drop the constraint and re-dump it.

Had a "recent_date" domain that was making sure new diary-style entries had a plausible date. Of course, two years later my dump can no longer restore the oldest record :-(

IMHO The real solution would be something that could strip/rewrite the constraint on restore rather than trying to prevent people being stupid though. People *will* just tag their functions as immutable to get them to work.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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