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-version 1.13.dhb.2 README
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-
-* Fixed dumpTable output to output lengths for char and varchar types!
-
-* Added single. quote to twin single quote expansion for 'insert' string
- mode.
-
-version 1.13.dhb README
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-
-This is a modified version of the pg_dump.c program that is distributed with
-pg95 1.01. Modifications include:
-
-* Applied 'insert string' patch from "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
-
- (see insert.patch & README.scrappy for info on this patch)
-
-* Added '-t table' option
-
- By specifying '-t table' on the command line you can output only the
- schema (table & index defs) and data for one table of a database.
-
- Example:
-
- pg_dump -t descriptions software
-
-* Added '-a' option
-
- This is the opposite of the -S option. By specifying -a you can output
- only the database data and not the schema.
-
- Example:
-
- pg_dump -a zipcodes
-
-* Added '-da' option
-
- Marc's '-d' option adds the ability to output insert strings, By using
- the 'a' sub-parameter you can also place the attribute names in the
- insert strings. Basically, this is useful because ALTER TABLE is
- broken in pg95 1.01.
-
- NOTE: This will create some long hairy output files! Be sure to pipe
- through compress or gzip before outputing to disk.
-
- Example:
-
- pg_dump -da -t oldfile mydatabase | gzip > oldfile.data.gz
-
-Comments:
-
- -----------------------------------------------------
- David Bennett, Bennett Software Solutions
- 2608 NW Fawn Drive Blue Springs, MO 64015
- Phone: 816-228-8788, Fax: 816-228-3204
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- PGP key at ftp://bensoft.com/pub/pgp/daveskey.txt
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- Here is what Marc had to say about insert.patch included in this archive....
-
- In preparation of finally moving all my 1.0 databases over to a 1.01
- database server, I looked at pg_dump and found that, unless I missed
- something, it didn't *easily* do what I wanted, which was to dump a database
- to a file, and then reload it again on another server (short-term)...but,
- also, there doesn't seem to be any mechanism for dumping the database to a
- file that can be backed up and quickly reloaded again.
-
- So, I spent the past several hours modifying pg_dump so that it has an extra
- switch for dumping the data in valid 'insert' strings, so that you can
- quickly and easily reload a database.
-
- So, now the output looks like:
-
- CREATE TABLE scrap (integer int4, real float4, text text) archive = none;
- insert into scrap values (1, 1, 'text');
-
- Now, the hard part was figuring out what types are available, so that the
- insert string works properly for char vs numberic data fields. As such, the
- switch statement I'm using in dumpClasses() for this may be missing values
- for numeric fields (I'm using PQftype() to figure out numeric vs non-numeric
- fields)