Re: sequence owned by backwards compatability

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: wouter(at)spmapplications(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sequence owned by backwards compatability
Date: 2007-12-12 05:06:35
Message-ID: 475F6C5B.2060405@commandprompt.com
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Wouter Pels wrote:
> We were running into problems today when we tried to import a 8.2.4 dump
> in a 8.1.5 database. It had to do with the new way of assigning
> sequences to colums, which confused 8.1.5 I didn't expect that at the
> time of configuration, and currently is down-grading to 8.1.x not an
> easy option anymore.
>
> Is there any trick to work arround this issue ? some kind of switch for
> backwards compatability ?

No switch but you could restore the schema separately from the data.
Then you could edit the schema to fit 8.1 commands before restore.

Out of curiosity.. why are you doing this? :)

Joshua D. Drake

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