Kevin Grittner escribió:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> >> We try to avoid using nonstandard SQL in dumps.
> >
> > How often do we succeed? It seems unlikely that our dumps would
> > be restorable into any other database.
>
> When we were running in a mixed environment we had several occasions
> where it was useful to feed pg_dump --column-inserts output into
> Sybase databases. It was very nice to have that. I think we did
> sometimes have to filter it through sed to deal with BOOLEAN vs BIT
> issues.
Maybe we should have a --compatible-mode or some such that enables these
things, instead of staying away from useful PG-only features.
The problem would then be how to test it ...
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