On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > > Replying to myself here :-) > > > wants to import it into a 7.3 database. Use the 7.3 dump you might say, > > but since BY does not do anything why not remove it from the dump output? > > I just realized there is yet another new construct in 7.4. The sequences > are created with NO MAXVALUE (and MINVALUE). Couldn't these just be > removed in the pg_dump output in this case. It's the default anyway, > right. > > I just imported a fairly big dump from a 7.4 database into a 7.3 database > and the sequences was the only thing I had to change. Of course the > database in itself was designed on 7.3 so it didn't use any 7.4 features. > > It's not a big issue, it's just that it seems simple to dump SQL code (for > sequences) that work the same on both 7.4 and older, not just 7.4.
Maybe a switch to set the destination version would be a good compromise? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
