I think I see the cause. I created a simple table and then generated
the dump. I found this that the normal table had its COPY data in
binary format while the max oid dump was pure ASCII. My guess is that
the max oid dump code isn't calling the right routine to dump its data.
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Brent Verner wrote:
> [2002-01-17 12:49] Bruce Momjian said:
>
> | It seems the -Fc format is somehow misinterpreting this. I am
> | researching this now but if someone has a clue, I could use it.
>
> Breakpoint 1, ExecuteSqlCommandBuf (AH=0x8056758, qryv=0x80614d0, bufLen=121)
> at pg_backup_db.c:653
> 653 for (pos = 0; pos < (eos - qry); pos++)
> (gdb) next
> 655 appendPQExpBufferChar(AH->sqlBuf, qry[pos]);
> (gdb)
> 658 switch (AH->sqlparse.state)
> (gdb) print *AH->sqlBuf
> $9 = {
> data = 0x8056a10 "--\n-- Selected TOC Entries:\n--\n--\n-- TOC Entry ID 2 (OID 0)\n--\n-- Name: Max OID Type:
<Init>Owner: \n-- Data Pos: 0 (Length 0)\n--\n\nC", len = 132, maxlen = 256}
> (gdb) cont
> Continuing.
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: no result from server
> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error
>
> Notice the 'C' at the end of the AH->sqlBuf->data. Looks like a
> bad count somewhere. I won't have time to dig any more til after
> work to(day|nignt).
>
> hth.
> brent
>
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