On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Willy-Bas Loos <willy...@gmail.com> writes: > > (the manual says:"It is recommended that you use the pg_dump and > pg_dumpall > > programs from the newer version of PostgreSQL") > > The reason for the manual's recommendation is that the newer version might > contain bug fixes not present in the older one. But discounting that > risk, a dump made by an older version of pg_dump usually should load into > a newer server. We try *very* hard to avoid breaking syntaxes used by old > pg_dump versions. The possibility of identifiers conflicting with new > reserved words is a hazard of course, which is what > "--quote-all-identifiers" was invented to address. But if you don't use > that option, you're at risk for that regardless of whether you dumped with > the older or new pg_dump. > > regards, tom lane > Ah, ok. So maybe the biggest problem was the thing with the sequences. One usually only gets into such an incident once, a big db with no sequences is no fun. @Melvin so then you were more correct than i would give you credit for. Cheers, -- Willy-Bas Loos
