oh, silly me. I was making a dump of a PostgreSQL 8.4.17 backend with pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 9.1.9
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > willy...@gmail.com writes: > > pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 9.1.9 ends in an error when backing up my db, which > > contains a field called "new". > > Works for me: > > regression=# create table new (f1 text, new text); > CREATE TABLE > regression=# insert into new (f1, new) values ('1','2'); > INSERT 0 1 > regression=# copy new(f1,new) to stdout; > 1 2 > > You sure the server is 9.1? > > regards, tom lane > -- "Quality comes from focus and clarity of purpose" -- Mark Shuttleworth