At 00:03 13/01/01 +1100, Philip Warner wrote:
>At 13:29 7/01/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>>> Essentially, worst case scenario, we are going from 'broken->broken' ...
>>
>>No, I don't think so. The current pg_dump code is only broken if
>>you've renamed a column involved in a foreign-key dependency (if I
>>understood the thread correctly). But Philip is proposing to change
>>pg_dump to rely on alter table add constraint for *all* PRIMARY KEY
>>constructs.
>
>I've got a version of this working now, but it raises a further question:
Apart from the fact that
ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT name PRIMARY KEY(fields);
is not supported in 7.1. Oh well.
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