Re: Problem in restoring data

Tom Lane wrote:

>Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>> I face the following problem in transferring data from
>>pgsql 7.3.4 to pgsql 7.4 RC1 . I am piping the output of
>>pg_dumpall from 7.3 to 7.4 running on different port.
>>The problem is there is a gist index on txtidx type on a
>>non-public schema and when search_path does not include
>>public the index cannot be created.
>>
>>
>
>There is a post-7.3.4 bug fix in the 7.3 branch for this mistake:
>
>2003-10-02 18:25 tgl
>
> * src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c (REL7_3_STABLE): When dumping
> CREATE INDEX, must show opclass name if the opclass isn't in the
> schema search path. Otherwise pg_dump doesn't correctly dump
> scenarios where a custom opclass is created in 'public' and then
> used by indexes in other schemas.
>
>Since the bug is in the backend and not pg_dump, you can't escape it by
>using the 7.4 version of pg_dump against the 7.3 server.
>

Ok,I read somewhere its always better to use more recent pg_dump while
migrating.

> You could
>recompile the server using the 7.3-branch-head version of ruleutils.c,
>

Thanks for the explanation , Shall do that please tell me how to fetch
ruleutils.c
from 7.3-branch-head (do not know the cvs commands O:-) ) , thanks again.

regds
mallah.

>though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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