On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Shane Ambler wrote:
I don't see that as being the case - there will be exceptions where
you have new features in an 8.x database that won't work in a 7.x db
but otherwise it shouldn't matter, the dumps can be used to import
into other databases than postgres as long as you use dump with
inserts instead of copy and use common datatypes.
Restoring dumps from new versions into old versions doesn't work
(without a lot of manual work). Example cases:
On the other hand, dumping a newer version database with an older
version of *pg_dump* is much more likely to succeed. It's not a
guarantee, but it should get you pretty close. And as someone else
mentioned, doing a plain text dump is probably your best bet in this
case.
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