"Chris White (cjwhite)" <cjwhite(at)cisco(dot)com> writes:
> When I restore a backup into a 7.4.2 database from a backup made on
> 7.2.1 database, using the clean option, I get the following error.
>
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: sequence
> "vm_emailjob_jobid_seq" does not exist
>
> Looks like the Drop table is also deleting the sequence.
Yup, serial columns work that way since 7.3 or so. Unfortunately 7.2's
pg_dump does not know that.
> How can I get around this?
Don't use --clean, or use 7.4's pg_dump to dump from the older server.
regards, tom lane