Re: pg_restore fails with a custom backup file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_restore fails with a custom backup file
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Msg-id 200612181703.kBIH3kG19186@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_restore fails with a custom backup file  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Not so: consider a backend COPY reading or writing a multi-gig table.
> 
> > Good point --- but do we do any seeks in COPY files?  I don't think so,
> 
> True, so if the problem is limited to whether we can seek or not, then
> we don't need to fix the backend.  Magnus said something about other
> issues though?

Yes, MinGW.  I think he is researching that.

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