From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jason Tan Boon Teck <tanboonteck@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Downgrading v8.4 database to v8.3
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 12:13:24 -0400
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Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Jason Tan Boon Teck wrote:
>> I need to move some databases written in Psql v8.4 to the stable
>> production server running v8.3. I tried pg_dump and pg_restore as well
>> as PgAdmin3. I am unable to do so due to the backward
>> incompatibility. Is there anyway to do this?
> You can try connecting a 8.3 client to the 8.4 server, then running
> pg_dump from that 8.3 client. That's a common approach for
> dump/restore when moving forward a version, and it may resolve your
> issue when moving backward one too. The 8.3 client shouldn't dump
> anything the 8.3 server doesn't know how to restore.
That's very likely to fail, and worse to do so silently, because 8.3
pg_dump doesn't know what's different about 8.4 system catalogs.
I think your only real recourse in this situation is to do a plain dump
from the 8.4 server (with 8.4 pg_dump) and then manually edit the dump
script to remove any 8.4-only syntax. If your application isn't actually
using any 8.4-only features this should be a pretty trivial matter.
If it is, then of course you have some work to do.
regards, tom lane
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