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| author | Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> | 2004-02-17 23:56:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> | 2004-02-17 23:56:07 +0000 |
| commit | afcc6fbb6034cd37aa518b29e5684df35c179ffa (patch) | |
| tree | f9ffd439593f11d1bd6656780dee8996b4e531fe | |
| parent | 0128c17c93d3382a22e76721679d9cf015fa9443 (diff) | |
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Remove a caveat from the "backup" documentation: pg_dump now does a
better job of handling dependencies between database objects.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml | 18 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml index 4a35a3f8a64..114d2ea588a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.36 2004/02/17 09:07:16 neilc Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.37 2004/02/17 23:56:07 neilc Exp $ --> <chapter id="backup"> <title>Backup and Restore</title> @@ -271,22 +271,6 @@ pg_dump -Fc <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> > <replaceable c <title>Caveats</title> <para> - <application>pg_dump</> (and by implication - <application>pg_dumpall</>) has a few limitations which stem from - the difficulty of reconstructing certain information from the system - catalogs. - </para> - - <para> - Specifically, the order in which <application>pg_dump</> writes - the objects is not very sophisticated. This can lead to problems - for example when functions are used as column default values. The - only answer is to manually reorder the dump. If you created - circular dependencies in your schema then you will have more work - to do. - </para> - - <para> For reasons of backward compatibility, <application>pg_dump</> does not dump large objects by default.<indexterm><primary>large object</primary><secondary>backup</secondary></indexterm> To dump |