On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>
> Replying to myself here :-)
>
> > wants to import it into a 7.3 database. Use the 7.3 dump you might say,
> > but since BY does not do anything why not remove it from the dump output?
>
> I just realized there is yet another new construct in 7.4. The sequences
> are created with NO MAXVALUE (and MINVALUE). Couldn't these just be
> removed in the pg_dump output in this case. It's the default anyway,
> right.
>
> I just imported a fairly big dump from a 7.4 database into a 7.3 database
> and the sequences was the only thing I had to change. Of course the
> database in itself was designed on 7.3 so it didn't use any 7.4 features.
>
> It's not a big issue, it's just that it seems simple to dump SQL code (for
> sequences) that work the same on both 7.4 and older, not just 7.4.
Maybe a switch to set the destination version would be a good compromise?
