Firstly the move to 7.3 was the most painful thing I have ever done, and
we are still finding undocumented little 'improvements' every day.
Todays beauty is this one
query to obtain list of data types failed: ERROR: Attribute
"typprtlen" not found
when trying to use pg_dump from another box(7.1.1). Not only does this
break almost every form of data manipulation we have here but it totally
voids our backup. Apparently someone made the decision to remove these
'unused' libraries.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-07/msg00580.php
did anyone bother doing regression tests? I have a multifaceted setup
here with at least 10 boxes running postgres. I cannot always upgrade
them all at the same time. It is imperative that they continue
communicating to each other. And this move to 7.3 has been so time
consuming that it will takes months to upgrade every box because so many
changes have been made that every box has to be re-evaluated to make
sure it still works. And this is just for the obvious known changes.
I am looking for any help on getting a dump out of this box.