From afcc6fbb6034cd37aa518b29e5684df35c179ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Conway Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:56:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove a caveat from the "backup" documentation: pg_dump now does a better job of handling dependencies between database objects. --- doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml | 18 +----------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml index 4a35a3f8a6..114d2ea588 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Backup and Restore @@ -270,22 +270,6 @@ pg_dump -Fc dbname > Caveats - - pg_dump (and by implication - pg_dumpall) has a few limitations which stem from - the difficulty of reconstructing certain information from the system - catalogs. - - - - Specifically, the order in which 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. - - For reasons of backward compatibility, pg_dump does not dump large objects by default.large