Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177912E004E for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:19:28 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51250-09 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:19:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from gauss.credativ.com (gauss.credativ.com [212.112.227.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3EA2E0045 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:19:27 -0400 (AST) Received: from hawking.credativ.lan (exit.credativ.com [87.139.82.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gauss.credativ.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B76784B9; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:19:24 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Loading 8.2 data into 8.1 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:19:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Andreas Joseph Krogh References: <200711201121.07327.andreak@officenet.no> In-Reply-To: <200711201121.07327.andreak@officenet.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711221419.23552.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/113 X-Sequence-Number: 29641 Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 schrieb Andreas Joseph Krogh: > Is it considered "safe" to use 8.1's pg_dump to dump an 8.2-db and load it > into 8.1? No, pg_dump will complain if you try that. It could work, with manual fixups perhaps, but it is far from "safe". -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/