Re: Order in which tables are dumped - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 07/25/2018 10:43 AM, Vick Khera wrote:

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

v8.4 if it matters.

It looked like the tables were being backed up in alphanumeric order, but now I see that table "docformat" is being dumped after "doc_image".

Are there some other rules besides alphabetical sorting?

Is there some concern about the order? Lower case f comes after _ in ascii.

I'm tracking the progress of a very long backup, and the spreadsheet I using (and gnu sort, too, and IIRC Postgres' own ORDER BY) sort based on the current locale (en_US), whereas pg_dump sorts based on the C locale.  Thus, things aren't as I expected.

The only time it could possibly matter is on restore when there are references for foreign keys, but on a restore those are all done after the data is restored.