Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Right. The issue is really complex databases which were developed in 7.2 or
> 7.1, which is missing the pg_depends information. In that case, pg_dump
> seems to get confused about dependency sorting, and a few objects with long
> dependency chains simply don't get backed up.
That would be a flat-out bug. Can we see a test case?
regards, tom lane