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Patch applied.  Thanks.

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Philip Warner wrote:
> At 01:32 AM 16/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> >It'd be substantially *more* helpful if it reported the failing command.
>
> They are two different problems; the TOC entry is important for any
> multiline command  or to rerun the command easily later.
>
> Whereas displaying the failed SQL command is a matter of fixing the error
> messages.
>
> The latter is complicated by failed COPY commands which, with die-on-errors
> off, results in the data being processed as a command, so dumping the
> command will dump all of the data.
>
> In the case of long commands, should the whole command be dumped? eg. (eg.
> several pages of function definition).
>
> In the case of the COPY command, I'm not sure what to do. Obviously, it
> would be best to avoid sending the data, but the data and command are
> combined (from memory). Also, the 'data' may be in the form of INSERT
> statements.
>
> Attached patch produces the first 125 chars of the command:
>
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC Entry 26; 1255 16449270 FUNCTION
> plpgsql_call_handler() pjw
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  function
> "plpgsql_call_handler" already exists with same argument types
>      Command was: CREATE FUNCTION plpgsql_call_handler() RETURNS
> language_handler
>      AS '/var/lib/pgsql-8.0b1/lib/plpgsql', 'plpgsql_call_han...
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC Entry 27; 1255 16449271 FUNCTION
> plpgsql_validator(oid) pjw
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  function
> "plpgsql_validator" already exists with same argument types
>      Command was: CREATE FUNCTION plpgsql_validator(oid) RETURNS void
>      AS '/var/lib/pgsql-8.0b1/lib/plpgsql', 'plpgsql_validator'
>      LANGU...
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