Hi,
Attached patch enables dumping of LOB comments when in text mode.
I really don't get the binary/custom format LOB stuff (and don't have
time to investigate), so perhaps someone else can do that.
Having it in text format is still an improvement though.
Chris
blobcomments.txt.gz
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Attached patch enables dumping of LOB comments when in text mode.
I really don't get the binary/custom format LOB stuff (and don't have
time to investigate), so perhaps someone else can do that.
That's pretty icky :-(. I think the right way
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:05:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Attached patch enables dumping of LOB comments when in text mode.
I really don't get the binary/custom format LOB stuff (and don't have
time to investigate), so perhaps someone else
Attached patch enables dumping of LOB comments when in text mode.
I really don't get the binary/custom format LOB stuff (and don't have
time to investigate), so perhaps someone else can do that.
That's pretty icky :-(. I think the right way is more like this.
Hehe - in the world of open
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:05:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
That's pretty icky :-(. I think the right way is more like this.
Wow, that's complex. No wonder I wasn't able to come up with a patch to
dump ALTER DATABASE commands some time ago.
The trick
The trick in hacking pg_dump is to understand which layer you need to
modify. The whole thing seems overly complex to me :-( ... but
redesigning it is a project for another release cycle.
I just find the whole BLOB handling very tricky to understand :(
I vote that we combine pg_dumpall and
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
we can possibly gain custom format full cluster dumps.
Do we care? The main rationale for inventing a custom format, as I
recall it, was (a) plain text couldn't hack blobs and (b) you needed
the ability to rearrange the dump order to work around
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:44:58PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
(BTW: Alvaro, I've been having direct mail to you bounce lately ---
let's see if this goes through ...)
Yeah, sorry about that :-( I realized I must change mail provider ASAP
when I noticed it's been eating my own emails (e.g. the
