Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Some 6 years ago, i had a bad experience with a custom dump. It wouldn't > restore and my data was lost. > I was a beginner then, and working under windows, and i wasn't on the mailing > list yet. > It was no critical data, we could build the database again, which was then > easier than figuring out what exactly went wrong with the backup. > > Since then i have refused to trust custom dumps. > But they do provide some very nice functionality, like restoring a single > table. > > So my question is: what is your advice on custom dumps? Can i bet my life on > them? I think so, yes. Early versions contains some errors with the correct order of objects (dumping a view before the table -> error whilst restore ...) Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
