> > I thought the suggested procedure (see migration doc) was to use the
> > new pg_dump to dump the older db version, so why backpatch ?
>
> Uh, you can suggest it, but I would guess < 50% do it, and once the
old
> database is gone, there is no way to re-do the dump.
But you can still load the dump if you execute the two statements in the
new db psql session before loading the dump file, no ?
> > > SET escape_string_warning = off;
> > > SET standard_conforming_strings = off;
Andreas