"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 4/20/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Well, the whole thing is pretty strange, because AFAICS pg_dump will >> never emit an UPDATE on a user table at all. > this was my understanding of pg_dump as well ... >> What PG version is this exactly? > latest version on Fedora Core 6 - 8.1.8 Hmph. It should pretty much just work ... and there is *definitely* not any update command visible in the source code. If there's not anything confidential about your schema, could you send me the output of "pg_dump -s" on the problem database? Maybe seeing a fuller picture will yield a clue. regards, tom lane