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From Evan Martin
Subject Re: Freeze when trying to run a pg_dump backup file as SQL query
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Msg-id 50003E39.2030803@realityexists.net
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In response to Freeze when trying to run a pg_dump backup file as SQL query  (Evan Martin <postgresql@realityexists.net>)
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No comments at all? Can anyone else at least repro this?

On 6/07/2012 10:33 PM, Evan Martin wrote:
> I've reliably reproduced the freezing bug I mentioned before (in the 
> suggestion to save query text). pgAdmin freezes when I try to run a 
> backup file created by pg_dump from an SQL query window. The file 
> contents look like this:
>
> COPY much_data (some_data) FROM stdin;
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
> \.
>
> When I run that the output window shows:
>
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "BLAH"
> LINE 2: BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH/...
>
> That's fine (well, it would be nice if pgAdmin supported restoring 
> such files, but that's another story) - but then it freezes. It 
> doesn't happen with 5 lines as above, but if I have 100 lines of data 
> that's enough to make it freeze for a few seconds. With a real back-up 
> file of 1 MB or more it probably won't come back any time soon and has 
> to be killed. (It doesn't need to be real data - just copy/paste the 5 
> BLAH lines above 20 times to reproduce the problem.)
>
> I'm running pgAdmin 1.14.3 running on Windows 7 (x64), PostgreSQL 9.1.3
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan
>




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