Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?
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Msg-id 3FBFDAF7.8090703@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
Responses Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?  (Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>)
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Stephan Szabo wrote:

>You're going to potentially have the constraints scattered in any case due
>to circular dependency chains. I'd think that having all the constraints
>in one place would be easier than trying to go through the list of tables
>that might be in a circular chain in order to find the constraints.
>  
>
I still disagree. cyclic dependencies should be avoided anyhow. You'll 
get an awful lot of trouble loading data in such a case. Some database 
systems refuse to create such stuff right away (mssql).

Regards,
Andreas




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