Re: Upcoming back-branch releases
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-08-16T02:19:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> My recollection is that that change was way too invasive to be > reasonable for a back-port. The solutions used for circular reference > situations (various ALTER commands) probably don't exist very far back > anyway. Nah, all you need to do is take the 8.0 pg_dump, hard-code that --use-set-session-authorization is always enabled, and remove use of pg_get_serial_sequence IIRC... >>It could be considered a 'bug' I guess, and could help people upgrading >>from 7.4... > > They could just use the 8.0 pg_dump for that. Yep. But who knows to do that? :) My 2c : we have an archive of statically compiled pg_dump binaries on postgresql.org. Cheers, Chris