> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: 11 September 2002 22:13
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Oliver Elphick; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS]
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > > That's a pretty big hurtle. I think we are better off giving
> > > them an SQL UPDATE to run.
> >
> > How would that massage a dump file though? I can't think of any SQL
> > that might make 7.2 output 'language_handler' correctly, and we
> > already know 7.3 will barf on opaque.
>
> Oh, I thought it was just the permissions that were the
> problem. Can we give them a sed script?
I guess so. It seems to me that upgrading to 7.3 is going to be the
stuff of nightmares, so my first thought is to try to avoid getting
people to run a 7.3 utility on their 7.x database. It would be nice to
see such a script run on old version dump files - but what else will
break? Oliver has found a couple of things, and I wouldn't be surprised
if my main installation falls over as well. If I get a chance I'll try
it tomorrow.
Regards, Dave.