On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 13:53, Qingqing Zhou wrote:
> "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >
> > Under no circumstances should you do this with a database that has any
> > data in it that you value. pg_dump / pg_restore / psql are the
> > preferred way of doing this.
> >
>
> Oh yeah, sorry for the miss leading information. My method is dangerous and
> can not cover all the cases (say you have an external stored column, etc).
>
> Sorry about it,
> Qingqing
No need to apologize. I do that same kind of thing all the time. Just
not on production servers is all.
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