"Paolo Negri" <hungrylist@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > My problem is that I have to load the dump (from a 7.3) in a brand new > database (8.1) and then I need to do quite a few changes to the schema > dropping some old foreign constraint and adding some different ones. > ... > How can I tell to pg_dump to dump the schema with foreign keys > construct instead of creating constraint trigger? You can't: the information just isn't there in 7.3. You'll need to look at the trigger arguments and reconstruct the FKs. IIRC the contrib/adddepend script might be able to help you with this. regards, tom lane