Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Is there any call to backport the pg_dump object sorting improvements?
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.
> 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.
regards, tom lane