| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade |
| Date: | 2002-09-12 17:51:31 |
| Message-ID: | 8525.1031853091@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:54, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Only if people dump their old databases with 7.3 pg_dump; which is an
>> assumption I'd rather not make if we can avoid it.
> I don't understand.
> The only pg_dump we can fix is 7.3.
Certainly. But if we hack the backend so it still accepts OPAQUE, then
we can still load 7.2 dump files.
> If someone restores into 7.3 with a 7.2 dump they are going to have
> other problems, such as turning all their functions private.
True, but they can fix that after-the-fact. Not sure if there is any
good workaround for the PL-handler problem in a 7.2 pg_dumpall script.
regards, tom lane
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