Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_dump tries to do too much per query

[Tom Lane]

Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FWIW, the patch below causes get_viewdef to produce:
>     ERROR:  pg_get_viewdef: cache lookup of attribute 1 in relation 19136
> failed for rule v_test
> when a table has been deleted.

Not much of a solution --- or do you propose to go through and hack up
every elog in every routine that could potentially be called during
pg_get_ruledef?

The reason that changing pg_dump is a superior solution for this problem
is that there's only one place to change, not umpteen dozen ...

                        regards, tom lane