Re: upgrade path / versioning roles

Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I think we still recommend using *new* pg_dump to dump *old* server when
> upgrading. If one tries that with today's pg_dump (8.1beta1) against 
> a 8.1devel server of 6 May, i.e., predating roles, one gets:

[ shrug... ]  The current code is expecting that "8.1" means what it
means today.  For dumping from a between-releases snapshot, you'd better
use the pg_dump from the same snapshot.

			regards, tom lane