Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upcoming back-branch releases
Date: 2005-08-16 02:19:56
Message-ID: 43014D4C.10400@familyhealth.com.au
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> My recollection is that that change was way too invasive to be
> reasonable for a back-port. The solutions used for circular reference
> situations (various ALTER commands) probably don't exist very far back
> anyway.

Nah, all you need to do is take the 8.0 pg_dump, hard-code that
--use-set-session-authorization is always enabled, and remove use of
pg_get_serial_sequence IIRC...

>>It could be considered a 'bug' I guess, and could help people upgrading
>>from 7.4...
>
> They could just use the 8.0 pg_dump for that.

Yep. But who knows to do that? :)

My 2c : we have an archive of statically compiled pg_dump binaries on
postgresql.org.

Cheers,

Chris

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