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Remove a caveat from the "backup" documentation: pg_dump now does a

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better job of handling dependencies between database objects.
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Neil Conway 2004-02-17 23:56:07 +00:00
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.36 2004/02/17 09:07:16 neilc Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.37 2004/02/17 23:56:07 neilc Exp $
-->
<chapter id="backup">
<title>Backup and Restore</title>
@ -270,22 +270,6 @@ pg_dump -Fc <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> > <replaceable c
<sect2 id="backup-dump-caveats">
<title>Caveats</title>
<para>
<application>pg_dump</> (and by implication
<application>pg_dumpall</>) has a few limitations which stem from
the difficulty of reconstructing certain information from the system
catalogs.
</para>
<para>
Specifically, the order in which <application>pg_dump</> writes
the objects is not very sophisticated. This can lead to problems
for example when functions are used as column default values. The
only answer is to manually reorder the dump. If you created
circular dependencies in your schema then you will have more work
to do.
</para>
<para>
For reasons of backward compatibility, <application>pg_dump</>
does not dump large objects by default.<indexterm><primary>large