Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > >>looks like somebody forgot to test some changes to the pg_dumpall >>code in Revision 1.70 against <8.1 installations - resulting in the >>following syntax error: > > > Dump output is never expected to be backward compatible.
yeah - but if you take a look at the code/patch you will see that the problem in this case is that pg_dumpall generates invalid SQL if it is operating against an older backend which is an obvious typo/thinko in this case. It has nothing to do with generating backwards compatible dumps - and using the pg_dumpall from the (newer) target version for upgrades has been recommended for a while (or rather is documented to work in the manual) I think. Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
