[rt-devel] Postgres, bytea and my ruined evening.

[Philip Warner]

At 04:17 PM 20/03/2003 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
>Well, to survive reordering of columns, the only real way to do it is
>with "pg_dump --attribute-inserts --data-only" then loading the result
>via psql after the new schema has been created.

Since at least 7.3, but maybe 7.2 PG_DUMP will use the extended COPY format 
which knows about column names & order. It was a surprise to me too...



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