Re: dump from 8.x restore to 7.3.x

I wrote to Peter Wilson some day ago:
I had problems, like that. I've omitted them using "plain" format (SQL
script file) of dump file. I restore data from "plain" format with psql
- using command "\i FILE". It work always. If You gzip this "plain" file
- You become simillar volume of file using binary dump format.

...And in Your case (downgrade) You can do this way. When in the script
will be something incopatbile with PostgreSQL 7.3 - You can simply edit
the SQL script.
I've imported for expample in this way MySQL scripts made in MySQL into
PostgreSQL.

Greetings
Adam

Edoardo Ceccarelli wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> We have a pretty big database that is going for an upgrade (PG7 -> PG8)
> in the next few days, we have tested all the features of our application
> but we cannot be sure that everything will work out perfectly (db is
> managing several blob's only tables that have proven to be pretty hard
> to configure).
> I am currently investigating a worst-case-scenario strategy that would
> be to downgrade the database from PG8 to 7 if anything goes wrong;00
> this implies that we:
> 1) dump from a running PG8
> 2) remove PG8 and reinstall PG7
> 3) restore the dump into the running PG7
>
> unfortunately pg_restore complains about the dump header and doesn't
> restore the db at all, having tried to dump with both -Ft and -Fc flags
>
> shall I try the "--ignore-version" option in pg_restore?
> is there going to be any problem in using this option? (corrupted data,
> tables, etc.)
>
> Thanks, any help appreciated
> Edoardo
>
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