Re: pg_dumpall and version confusion

From: Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall and version confusion
Date: 2007-03-15 16:53:16
Message-ID: 45F979FC.4060006@amsoftwaredesign.com
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Dave Page wrote:
> This is a problem I've been thinking about on and off recently - and I
> am starting to come to the conclusion that shipping each version of
> the utilities is the only way things are likely to work unless someone
> puts some really significant effort into adding backwards
> compatibility modes to pg_dump (which I imagine is likely to meet
> resistance if offered as a patch anyway).
>

I never had a issue before the 8.2 dump and the GRANT ON SEQUENCE.
The version differences in PGSQL are nothing compared to what goes on
with MySQL.

Maybe that would be a good Google summer of code project :-) (make
pg_dump more backwards compatible to at least 8.0)

Later,

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Tony Caduto
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