Magnus Hagander wrote: > Dave Page wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Tony Caduto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> paul rivers wrote: > >> >> > >> > Going from 8.2.4 and 8.2.6 to 8.3.0 has been painless for me. > >> > However, unlike the blogger you cite, I read the directions before, > >> > not after, attempting it. > >> > >> > >> The blogger has a point about pg_dump and restore, it could be much > >> better, for example > >> the backup process could be part of the server core and instead of > >> having a fat client where most of the process is running on the client, > >> a API could be > >> used where the backup is generated on the server and then have options > >> where it could be left on the server or transferred to the clients PC. > > > > Not really an option - the reason it's recommended to use the new > > pg_dump version with the older server when upgrading is to allow the > > dump to be made in the way most compatible with the new server, > > effectively doing some of the upgrade process as part of the dump > > operation. > > For the case of upgrading, it wouldn't work. But there are certainly > other cases where it would help. Say from your central pgadmin console > administering 10 servers from 3 different major release trees :-( > > It can be done with commandline pg_dump, but it means you have to have > three different installs on your management or backup or whatever > machine. Those cases would certainly be easier if you could just call a > backup API on the server that would feed you the data... (yes, there are > ways to do it with ssh tunneling and whatever, but that's yet another > external service that has to be set up and configured)
Using the new pg_dump for dumping older versions during an ugprade is just inconvenient and something we should not need to do. At the worst we should have a way for us to upgrade the older version of pg_dump with whatever functionality we need and just tell people to be running the most recent minor release before upgrading. What cases on the past have needed the new pg_dump? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/
