Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb Andrew Kelly: > Unless my installation is unique in some way of which I'm yet unaware, Yes, it's a Debian package. > pg_dump seems to be just a handful of lines in a perl script. In fact, > pg_dump, pg_restore and pg_dumpall are all simlinks to the same simple > perl script, the contents of which seem to be identical in both my > 'older' and 'newer' versions of PG. Does this mean I can trust any old > dump from my older server to seamlessly plug into my newer version? Or > does thin mean there are other 'gizmos' than pg_dump which I need to > copy from new machine to old machine to perform the dump? The advice remains: Install the newest client package and use that pg_dump. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
