We were running into problems today when we tried to import a 8.2.4 dump in a 8.1.5 database. It had to do with the new way of assigning sequences to colums, which confused 8.1.5 I didn't expect that at the time of configuration, and currently is down-grading to 8.1.x not an easy option anymore. Is there any trick to work arround this issue ? some kind of switch for backwards compatability ? have thought of parsing the dump through a convert script to translate the SET OWNED to an ALTER COLUMN, but if there may be an easier way to achieve the same result. thanks in advance, regards wouter ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster