> Think is, 8.1 does a much better job of upgrading 7.2 datatabases than
> 7.3 or 7.4 did anyway. I just tested using a database created in 7.1
> and upgraded to 7.2 which has a baroque and unnecessarily complex schema
> (legacy production applicaiton) which breaks on 7.4 without adddepends.
> I was able to upgrade it to 8.2(today) and it worked without adddepends.
>
> I'm testing dump, load, dump, load now to see if it still works OK.
That's irrelevant - does it actually have FK's is the question. I bet
you'll instead have a bunch of CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER statements...