On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 04:51:55PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> writes:
> > Built & installed 9.2.3. Dumped 9.1 db (using 9.2 pg_dump IIRC). Restored.
> > Database search path was not restored. Had to execute alter database ... set search_path to...
>
> That's a hole in the particular dump methodology you selected:
>
> > pg_dumpall -g -f roles.dump
> > pg_dump -F c -Z 0 -v pedcard > db.dump
>
> pg_dump does not dump/restore database properties, only database
> contents. Properties are the responsibility of pg_dumpall, which
> you bypassed (for databases anyway).
>
> There's been some discussion of refactoring these responsibilities,
> but no consensus.
pg_upgrade fixed this for pg_dumpall -g --binary-upgrade by outputing
the per-database settings.
Isn't this a bug? Seems there is no way to get these exported without
pg_dumpall non-'g' mode.
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