On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 13:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> To preserve platform and version independence of the dump. > > > Only if there is a risk. Since a common route to upgrade is a > > dump/restore back onto same box it seems worth having an option to do > > this. > > I think you missed the point about version independence. That would be > exactly the scenario where a version-to-version change in binary format > --- for instance, "money" widening to 64 bits in 8.3 --- would burn you.
OK > Furthermore, this doesn't seem like a scenario where performance ought > to be the primary concern. How often do you do major version upgrades? Not often enough. If it was faster, we would rely on more people actually doing it. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
