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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Why is pg_dump using INSERTs instead of COPYs?
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Msg-id 200403311435.15942.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Why is pg_dump using INSERTs instead of COPYs?  (reina_ga@hotmail.com (Tony Reina))
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Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2004 13:14 schrieb Tony Reina:
> I've got a database running PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on Fedora Linux. In the
> past, pg_dump would dump database backups using COPY to restore the
> data. This time it appears that it has individual INSERTs for each
> tuple. Perhaps I'm missing this in the latest documentation, but I
> thought COPY was the default unless the --inserts switch is declared.

This is still the case.

> Can anyone think of why I'd be getting INSERTs?

Shell aliases perhaps.

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