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FAQ: upgrade recommendation

From
Patrick Welche
Date:
Would you use pg_dumpall v7.2 or v7.3 to dump a v7.2 database before loading
it into a v7.3 server?

Does it matter?
(Guess not, just see slight changes like constraints on primary keys being
part of table creation for 7.2, but added at the end for 7.3 - probably for
speed of COPYing)

Cheers,

Patrick

Re: FAQ: upgrade recommendation

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Doesn't really matter.  There are few improvements in the 7.3 version,
but nothing dramatic.

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Patrick Welche wrote:
> Would you use pg_dumpall v7.2 or v7.3 to dump a v7.2 database before loading
> it into a v7.3 server?
>
> Does it matter?
> (Guess not, just see slight changes like constraints on primary keys being
> part of table creation for 7.2, but added at the end for 7.3 - probably for
> speed of COPYing)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
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Re: FAQ: upgrade recommendation

From
"scott.marlowe"
Date:
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Would you use pg_dumpall v7.2 or v7.3 to dump a v7.2 database before loading
> it into a v7.3 server?
>
> Does it matter?
> (Guess not, just see slight changes like constraints on primary keys being
> part of table creation for 7.2, but added at the end for 7.3 - probably for
> speed of COPYing)

There have been some minor issues that have been cleared up by using the
7.3 pg_dump instead of the 7.2 pg_dump.  I don't remember what they all
are, but the archive should list them somewhere.