Re: [HACKERS] Still having trouble importing 6.3 DB

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Cc: stanb@awod.com, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-01-05T03:30:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Ah, I see what's going on.  You're getting burnt by not having upgraded
> to 6.3.1 or 6.3.2 before moving to 6.4.  The pg_user table was changed
> at 6.3.1, and pg_dumpall was modified accordingly --- but the 6.3
> version of pg_dumpall produces a script that will not successfully load
> the user definitions into 6.3.1 or later.

Ooh, good catch.  You are correct.

> 
> I think you can make it work by just changing "copy pg_user from stdin;"
> to "copy pg_shadow from stdin;" a couple lines down from the top of
> the dump script.
> 
> Memo to hackers: we need a better way of coping with cross-version
> changes that affect dump scripts...

Not sure how to deal with that one.

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