Re: User table porting

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jan-Peter Seifert <Jan-Peter(dot)Seifert(at)gmx(dot)de>
Cc: Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: User table porting
Date: 2009-03-10 19:33:54
Message-ID: dcc563d10903101233s61724bb2hb4a4cd3c34786d3@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jan-Peter Seifert
<Jan-Peter(dot)Seifert(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Isn't it generally better to use the newer binaries from the target
> server especially with psql?

Generally this is true.

> I remember getting quite a few errors when restoring a pg_dumpall from
> an 8.1 server, because the create user syntax in the dump file was obsolete.
> You might need some more options for piping (-U etc.):

But we're not really doing a pg_dumpall of everything, just he global
objects. Not sure if there's any issues with a later version versus a
newer version there. Probably best to use the newer pg_dumpall /
pg_dump than the older one though.

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