On 4 Mar 2002 at 15:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes:
> > It would be easily detected at load time. Then you direct the user to
> > the tool mentioned above.
>
> But if the user has already dumped and flushed his old installation,
> he's still in need of a time machine.
Agreed. I had that same problem with upgrading to 7.2. My solution was
to install 7.1.3 on another box, load, massage, dump. Next time, I'll
keep the old version around a bit longer.
> Hmm, maybe what we need is a tool that can be applied during load.
> Essentially, alter incoming constraint names as needed to make them
> unique. We could have this enabled by a SET switch...
I think that is an eloquent solution.
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