On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 14:16:13 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:17:13 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote > > > Yes, but you should make the dump with the dump utility of the new > > release to which you want to update. > > So version x.y+1 is unable to read a dump created by version x.y? They can read them, but sometimes there are new features and you can take advantage of them better during the dump. So that when you do the load into the new version, it will end up getting done better. I don't have a for sure example off hand, but I seem to remember that this was a good idea when schemas got added. Another possibility was that at some point dependency handling during dumps was improved (probably more than once) and that these additions were not backported to every version someone might have been using. Doing the dump with the later version might have saved you some hand tweaking of the table definitions (particularly when tables referenced each other) at some upgrade points. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
