Re: Pains in upgrading to 8.3

Bruce Momjian escribió:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:

> > For the case of upgrading, it wouldn't work. But there are certainly
> > other cases where it would help. Say from your central pgadmin console
> > administering 10 servers from 3 different major release trees :-(

What's wrong with providing statically-linked pg_dump-8.2, pg_dump-8.3
and so on, and asking the user which one to use (depending on the target
server version)?

> Using the new pg_dump for dumping older versions during an ugprade is
> just inconvenient and something we should not need to do. At the worst
> we should have a way for us to upgrade the older version of pg_dump with
> whatever functionality we need and just tell people to be running the
> most recent minor release before upgrading.
>
> What cases on the past have needed the new pg_dump?

Dependency handling IIRC in 7.3 (or was it 7.2?) was a big change for
pg_dump, and I don't think we would have liked to backpatch the pg_dump
changes. Also, AFAIK the sequences stuff with OWNED BY also needed the
newer pg_dump, which is more recent (8.2?). I don't think it's as rare
as you suggest.

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