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