Re: pg_dump, formats & blobs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:44:18AM +1000, Philip Warner allegedly wrote:
> At 01:14 14/04/01 +0200, Mathijs Brands wrote:
> ...
> >sol2:~$ pg_dump -b -Fc -f blaat.bk blaat
> >sol2:~$ pg_restore -l blaat.bk
> ...
> >;
> >; Archive created at Sat Apr 14 01:03:02 2001
> ...
> 
> This all looks fine.

Hmm, I can only agree.

sol2:~$ cksum postgresql-7.1rc4.tar.gz
61540329        8088934 postgresql-7.1rc4.tar.gz
sol2:~$ dropdb blaat
DROP DATABASE
sol2:~$ createdb blaat
CREATE DATABASE
sol2:~$ psql -c 'create table test(a oid)' blaat
CREATE
sol2:~$ psql -c "insert into test values(lo_import('/export/home/mathijs/postgresql-7.1rc4.tar.gz'))" blaat
INSERT 22753 1
sol2:~$ pg_dump -b -Fc -f blaat.bk blaat
sol2:~$ psql -c 'drop table test ; vacuum' blaat
VACUUM
sol2:~$ pg_restore -d blaat blaat.bk
sol2:~$ psql -c "select lo_export(test.a, '/export/home/mathijs/testfile') from test" blaatlo_export
-----------        1
(1 row)

sol2:~$ cksum testfile
61540329      8088934 testfile
sol2:~$ pg_restore -l blaat.bk
;
; Archive created at Sat Apr 14 03:59:02 2001
;     dbname: blaat
;     TOC Entries: 4
;     Compression: -1
;     Dump Version: 1.5-2
;     Format: CUSTOM
;
;
; Selected TOC Entries:
;
2; 18792 TABLE test mathijs
3; 18792 TABLE DATA test mathijs
4; 0 BLOBS BLOBS

I couldn't get blobs to be restored correctly (must've been doing
something wrong). When something doesn't work, never question your
own methods ;)

> >sol2:~$ pg_dump -b -Ft -f blaat.tar blaat
> >zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  pg_dump -b -Ft -f blaat.tar blaat
> 
> This is less good. It's caused by the final part of TAR output, which also
> dumps a plain SQL script for reference (not actually ever used by
> pg_restore). I will fix this in CVS; ctx->filename is set to null for this
> script, and my compiler outputs '(null)', which is very forgiving of it. 

It's more likely that your C library is more forgiving (ie. Open Source OS?).

> >Could this be caused by the fact that IMHO blobs aren't dumped correctly?
> >
> 
> Is there some other problem with BLOBs that you did not mention? AFAICT,
> this is only a problem with TAR output (an will be fixed ASAP). 

Yeah, they're not fool proof ;)

Sorry about the false alarm. I was convinced restoring blobs
didn't work correctly.

Regards,

Mathijs
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