On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > =?iso-8859-15?q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, I can only make a new ask. Why is there the --inserts and > > --attribute-inserts options ? > > It's mostly historical IMHO. The COPY option used to have bugs for > corner cases like inheritance child tables that had been ALTERed > after creation. That's all gone now. The only reason I can see to > use these options today is if you want to try to port the dump to > some other database ... and in that case you probably shouldn't > assume multi-insert will work anyway.
I'm pretty sure it does in the current versions of most other DBMSs. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consider donating to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
