At 13:43 22/06/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
>Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>I'm wondering if pg_dump should store the location of the tablespace. If
>your machine dies, you get a new machine to re-create the database, you
>may not want the tablespace in the same spot. And text-editing a
>gigabyte file would be extremely painful.
>
This is a very good point; the way Dec/RDB gets around it is to allow the
'pg_restore' command to override storage settings when restoring a backup
file.
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