2014-09-30 17:18 GMT+02:00 Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>:
>
> I have pushed this fix, except that instead of parsing the OID from the
> dropStmt as in your patch, I used te->catalogId.oid, which is much
> simpler.
>
yes, it is much better
>
> I tested this by pg_restoring to 8.4 (which doesn't have
> pg_largeobject_metadata); there is no error raised:
>
> LOG: sentencia: SELECT CASE WHEN EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM
> pg_catalog.pg_largeobject WHERE loid = '43748') THEN
> pg_catalog.lo_unlink('43748') END;
>
> In 9.0 the command is the new style:
>
> LOG: sentencia: SELECT pg_catalog.lo_unlink(oid) FROM
> pg_catalog.pg_largeobject_metadata WHERE oid = '43748';
>
> So it's all fine. I guess it's fortunate that we already had the
> DropBlobIfExists() function.
>
> Now a further problem I notice is all the *other* commands for which we
> inject the IF EXISTS clause; there is no support for those in older
> servers, so they throw errors if --if-exists is given in the pg_restore
> line. I think we can just say that --if-exists is not supported for
> older servers; as Heikki said, we don't promise that pg_dump is
> compatible with older servers anyway. In my test database, several
> commands errored out when seeing the EXTENSION in CREATE EXTENSION IF
> EXISTS.
> So we're okay now.
>
great,
Thank you very much
Pavel
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