On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/2016 07:44 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote: > >> >> > >> >> *To clarify, you cannot dump the pg_catalog schema. It is the main >> control of how all other objects are >> > > Actually you can. I would not of thought so, but tried Achilleas's > suggestion and it worked. Example: > > -- > -- Name: pg_aggregate; Type: TABLE; Schema: pg_catalog; Owner: postgres > -- > > CREATE TABLE pg_aggregate ( > aggfnoid regproc NOT NULL, > aggkind "char" NOT NULL, > aggnumdirectargs smallint NOT NULL, > aggtransfn regproc NOT NULL, > aggfinalfn regproc NOT NULL, > aggmtransfn regproc NOT NULL, > aggminvtransfn regproc NOT NULL, > aggmfinalfn regproc NOT NULL, > aggfinalextra boolean NOT NULL, > aggmfinalextra boolean NOT NULL, > aggsortop oid NOT NULL, > aggtranstype oid NOT NULL, > aggtransspace integer NOT NULL, > aggmtranstype oid NOT NULL, > aggmtransspace integer NOT NULL, > agginitval text, > aggminitval text > ); > > COPY pg_aggregate (aggfnoid .... > > > and you do get errors: > > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "any" appears to be invalid > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "anyarray" appears to be invalid > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "anyelement" appears to be invalid > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "anyenum" appears to be invalid > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "anynonarray" appears to be invalid > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "anyrange" appears to be invalid > pg_dump: WARNING: typtype of data type "cstring" appears to be invalid > > .... > > Still not sure why you would want to, but you can. > > > stored in the cluster. There is no point in dumping it and all it's >> tables and views are already clearly >> documented. >> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/catalogs.html >> >> pg_catalog itself is generated with the initdb command when a new >> postgresql cluster is generated. >> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/creating-cluster.html >> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/app-initdb.html* >> >> -- >> *Melvin Davidson* >> I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you >> wish to share my fantasy is entirely up to you. >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com > *Hmmm, well you learn something new every day. Albeit, although you can view the dump file, I'm pretty sure you cannot restore it to a database because,* *by definition, those tables would already exist in the database.* -- *Melvin Davidson* I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you wish to share my fantasy is entirely up to you.
