Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Is there any call to backport the pg_dump object sorting improvements?

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.

> 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.
        regards, tom lane