On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:53, Tony Caduto wrote:
> 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)

It would be quite useful to have a -sourcever and -targetver flag in
pg_dump that understood the latest version and the last two or three
versions.  So, if you had pg_dump for v8.2 you could do something like:

pg_dump -sourcever 8.2 -targetver 8.0 > dump.sql

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