Re: beta6 pg_restore core dumps - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: beta6 pg_restore core dumps
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Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20010318131145.023ec740@mail.rhyme.com.au
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In response to Re: beta6 pg_restore core dumps  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 21:08 17/03/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>>> Considering that the data we are working with is binary, and may contain
>>> nulls, any code that insisted on null-termination would probably be ipso
>>> facto broken.
>
>> But we're not; this is the same code that sends the COPY output back to PG.
>
>Oh, isn't this the code that pushes large-object bodies around?  I
>should think the problem would've been noticed much sooner if not...

It does both, which is why I was also surprised.



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