On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:14:12PM +0100, fkater@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my db structure relays on the OIDs of tables (stored as OIDs of
> pg_class).
>
> However, 'pg_dumpall -o ...' seems to save the oids of all data but not
> the tableoids, so, when I restore data I get different tableoids than I
> had before!
>
> Is there anything I could do to backup and restore even the tableoids
> (besides stopping server and copying the files) ?
No. When creating a table there is no way to specify the OID, hence
when restoring a dump there is no way to preserve them. This was never
guarenteed, the OID saving was for large objects and rows, not table
oids.
Have a nice day,
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