"Mason Hale" <masonhale@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 4/14/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The methodology that pre-8.2 pg_dump uses for serial columns is >> vulnerable to quite a number of problems if serial sequences don't have >> the expected names, and this seems to be another one. > I assume it would not be advisable to use the 8.2 version of pg_dump, if I > intend to restore to an 8.1 database, correct? Unfortunately not; the fix for this involves a server-side feature that doesn't exist in 8.1, so the dump will flat out not work. You could however use the newer pg_dump to dump from 8.1 if you were intending an upgrade, and it would successfully reproduce the older DB's state in 8.2. regards, tom lane
