Re: [HACKERS] Large object corruption during 'piped' pg_restore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bosco Rama <postgres(at)boscorama(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Large object corruption during 'piped' pg_restore
Date: 2011-01-21 19:28:08
Message-ID: 17244.1295638088@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bosco Rama <postgres(at)boscorama(dot)com> wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> So I'm not sure whether to fix it, or leave it as a known failure case
>>> in old branches. Comments?

>> As an end user there is one area of the DB that I want to work correctly
>> 100% of the time and that is the dump/restore tool(s).

> Yeah, I lean toward saying we should back-patch this.

Fair enough, I'll go do it. I just wanted to hear at least one other
person opine that it was worth taking some risk for.

regards, tom lane

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