[HACKERS] Ripping out pg_restore's attempts to parse SQL before sending it

In http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/201107270042.22427.jul...@mehnle.net it's pointed out that pg_restore in direct-to-database mode is pretty badly broken if standard_conforming_strings=on. The reason is that it tries to lex SQL commands well enough to find line boundaries, and the code

Re: [HACKERS] Ripping out pg_restore's attempts to parse SQL before sending it

I wrote: While I've not yet done any excavation in the commit logs to confirm this, the nearby comments in the code indicate that separation of COPY data from SQL commands was adopted in archive format version 1.3, which is ancient. In fact, it's so ancient that there was never a production