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Re: BUG #6299: pg_dump, pg_dumpall - Problem with the order of backup functions - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #6299: pg_dump, pg_dumpall - Problem with the order of backup functions
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Msg-id 16935.1321716868@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #6299: pg_dump, pg_dumpall - Problem with the order of backup functions  (lindebg <lindebg@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #6299: pg_dump, pg_dumpall - Problem with the order of backup functions  (lindebg <lindebg@gmail.com>)
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lindebg <lindebg@gmail.com> writes:
> On 11/19/2011 12:19 AM, lindebg@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Thanks, in this case works :-) However, this does not solve all cases.
>>> Unlikely, but possible to create, cyclic case can not be restored:

Color me skeptical.  Under what conceivable use-case could you have
functions that were mutually dependent in that way?  And actually did
something useful (not recurse till stack overflow) when called?

            regards, tom lane

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