No, the file needs to be nothing but hex value 55 throughout. The
attachment I sent earlier is just that:
smarlowe@sawyer:~$ hexdump 55
0000000 5555 5555 5555 5555 5555 5555 5555 5555
*
0040000
i.e. all 55s, all the time, not the ascii numbers 5 and 5, but the hex
value. The actual file is ascii the letter U over and over:
smarlowe@sawyer:~$ head -c 100 55
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
and so on.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:
> To use the hex value 0x55, do I need to enclose it in single quotes?
>
> Carol
>
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> writes:
>>>
>>> Are the files that contain the hex characters supposed to contain a
>>> single string and no control characters?
>>
>> Yes, you want 256K occurrences of the byte value 0x55 and nothing else.
>>
>>> I'm also wondering if, after I create the dummy files, and pg_dump
>>> works, I could restore an old pg_dumpall file and then insert any
>>> data that aren't there from the pg_dumps.
>>
>> It'd be a good idea to do as much cross-checking as you can, since
>> it's highly probable that the dumped data will be at least partly wrong.
>>
>> No, I'm afraid updating to 8.2.latest won't get you out of this.
>> It might possibly prevent a recurrence.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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