I am surprised and have never heard of this happening.
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday our system-harddisk crashed and i had to restore
> the postgres databases from the backup-tape.
>
> i simply use pg_dumpall with no params for dumping the
> data, but when i used psql for restoring the data,
> every view was created as a table and was filled up
> with the data which the view had been delivered at
> the time of the backup.
>
> it was no problem, because actually we dont use much
> views so i could restored it by hand. but the
> question is, is it possible to backup views, and
> the bigger question for me is, what additional surprises do
> i have to expect from pg_dumpall?
>
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