We are in the process of migrating our various servers to a kvm host with guest vms. The new guests run pg-9.1.2 under CentOS-6.2. However, our off site warm spares are still running pg-8.4.4 under CentOS-5.7. We have an automated transfer routine that dumps the live database, now running v.9.1.2, and sends the dump file to the off site host. There the dump is restored to an 8.4.4 version. My question: Is their a way to specify a pg_dump option to retain compatibility with a lower version pg database? Alternatively, can one install a higher level pg_dump in an otherwise 8.4.4 installation? The reason for the question is that we are receiving these warnings: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 257; 3079 12506 EXTENSION plpgsql pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: syntax error at or near "EXTENSION" LINE 1: DROP EXTENSION plpgsql; ^ Command was: DROP EXTENSION plpgsql; pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: syntax error at or near "EXTENSION" LINE 1: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS plpgsql WITH SCHEMA pg_catalo... ^ Command was: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS plpgsql WITH SCHEMA pg_catalog; pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3473; 0 0 COMMENT EXTENSION plpgsql pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: syntax error at or near "EXTENSION" LINE 1: COMMENT ON EXTENSION plpgsql IS 'PL/pgSQL procedural languag... ^ Command was: COMMENT ON EXTENSION plpgsql IS 'PL/pgSQL procedural language'; pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3462; 0 20928 TABLE DATA wiki_content_versions hll_redmine_db_admin pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea CONTEXT: COPY wiki_content_versions, line 1, column data: "\x68312e205b5b57696b6953746172747c48617274652026204c796e65204c696d697465642053746172745d5d0d0a0d0a0d..." WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 4 -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general