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Re: 8.5 TODO: Add comments to output indicating version of pg_dump and of the database server

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

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From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: "shakahshakah@gmail.com" <shakahshakah@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-29T01:38:06Z
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shakahshakah@gmail.com wrote:
> -- PostgreSQL database dump
> --
> -- pg_dump version: 8.5devel
> --
> -- remote database version: 8.5devel (80500)
> --
>   


FWIW, and I havent read the entire thread, but pg_dump already *stores*
this information in a custom format. Try:

pg_dump -Fc blah
pg_restore -L ...

and you will get something like:

;
; Archive created at Sun Nov 29 12:34:24 2009
;     dbname: blah
;     TOC Entries: 202
;     Compression: -1
;     Dump Version: 1.10-0
;     Format: CUSTOM
;     Integer: 4 bytes
;     Offset: 8 bytes
;     Dumped from database version: 8.0.3
;     Dumped by pg_dump version: 8.0.3
;

so, all that is needed is to add the relevant statements into the output
code.