Jeff,
> I thought that 8.0.x's pg_dump/restore was going to have much better object
> dependency checking?
It does.
> I just did a test dump/restore between our new 8.0.3
> system and a test 8.0.3 system and received the following output from
> pg_restore:
Looks like there's some problems with the function definitions for PostGIS.
Ask on the PostGIS mailing list.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco