Re: Hmmm 8.1 pg_dumpall cannot dump older db's? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Hmmm 8.1 pg_dumpall cannot dump older db's?
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Msg-id 42CE86A6.2010309@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Hmmm 8.1 pg_dumpall cannot dump older db's?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
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>>But after falling back to template1, a version check could be made and
>>if running 8.1 or higher an error message could be displayed.
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>Once we're connected to template1, we might as well just use it ...
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Agreed. In any case, I thought that dropping the postgres database was 
supposed to be OK if you wanted to work that way. (I also thought 
fallback was the way all this was supposed to work anyway).

cheers

andrew


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