From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Thorsten Schöning <tschoening@am-soft.de>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: upgrade path from PG 8.3 to PG 9.5
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:12:48 -0400
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>> Yes. Using the older pg_dump may result in dumps that can't be restored
>> into the newer version of PG because things like keywords have been
>> added and must now be quoted. There are possibly other things that have
>> been changed between the old version and the new one which would also
>> require the new pg_dump to be used, but keywords are the big one.
> The proper solution to the keyword/identifier quoting problem is to use
> "--quote-all-identifiers".
... which didn't exist before 9.1 ...
regards, tom lane
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