A few thoughts: what command are you using to produce the 7.2 dump? what is
the exact version of the 7.2 server?
Try and see if you can get a good dump using the 7.4 pg_dump against the 7.2
database.
Robert Treat
On Monday 24 November 2003 08:43, Gerwin Philippo wrote:
> Oops, last message was not entirely correct: Unfortunately the 7.2 version
> is also unable to read back the dumps it made. The dumps created look
> completely impossible to run to me:
>
> line100: create view "vw1" as select field1 from table1;
>
> line200: create table1 (field1 integer);
>
> If the server went down today, I'd be in big trouble! Please help!
>
> Gerwin
>
> "Gerwin Philippo" <gerwin@vernet.nl> schreef in bericht
> news:3fc1eecd$0$1508$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>
> > I'm testing 7.4, and tried to read a pg_dump file created in 7.2 into a
>
> 7.4
>
> > database.
> > I get a lot of error messages when creating views from tables because the
> > tables are not created yet.
> > Looking into the dump file, the order in which objects are created looks
> > funny: first some views, then the tables on which these views are based.
> > This seems impossible to me, but the odd thing is that with the 7.2
> > server
>
> I
>
> > can read this dump into a new database without any problems.
> > Any ideas?
>
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