Re: pg_dump - txt sql vs binary

"Ciprian Hodorogea" <ciprian.hodorogea@bitsp.com> writes:
>   1. I noticed that binary dumps created with Postgres 8.0.3 can not be
> imported with Postgres 8.1.x, so this is not a good backup idea.

If you mean a filesystem dump, no.

>   2. All dumps generated with pg_dump seem to contain internal functions
> also, which then raise problems when trying to import. Can these be somehow
> excluded from the generated SQL backup?

Details please?

            regards, tom lane