Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and INCREMENT BY

2004-04-07 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
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.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund


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Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and INCREMENT BY

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Dennis Bjorklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 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.

IIRC, these changes were to bring the syntax in line with the SQL200x
spec, and thus possibly improve compatibility with other databases.
I'm not eager to revert them.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump and INCREMENT BY

2004-04-07 Thread scott.marlowe
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?


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