On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org wrote:
> luby liao (liao@sandiego.edu) reports a bug with a severity of 2
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
>
> Short Description
> pg_dump a simple table can fail if other view/triggers are faulty
>
> Long Description
> We use Postgresql 7.1.2 on a Redhat 7.0 Linux PC. My CS145 students
> all work in a database called cs145. Some students introduced
> unintended faulty views and triggers into the database. When a
> student tried to pg_dump his own tables, he got error messages that
> say that other people's views or triggers were faulty.
We're going to need some additional information for this to be a
complete report. What options were used to pg_dump, how far the dump
got and what messages were reported.
It'd be nice to know what was meant by faulty views and triggers or
an example to reproduce the problem.