Re: How to migrate database from 10.1 to 9.1

"Andrus" <kobruleht2@hot.ee> writes:
> Database is created in
>     "PostgreSQL 10.1 on x86_64-pc-mingw64, compiled by gcc.exe (Rev5, Built 
> by MSYS2 project) 4.9.2, 64-bit"
> and contains tables with autogenerated primary keys like
> ...
> if this database is restored to Postgres 9.1 from custom backup using
> ...
> automatic primary key generation stops working.

This is a bit unfortunate, because it's not obvious to the naked eye that
a SERIAL column (I assume you actually defined the column as SERIAL?) is
using any new-in-v10 syntax.  But it is.  If you'd looked at the error
output you'd have noticed that the CREATE SEQUENCE command is getting a
syntax error:

psql:testv10.dump:58: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "AS"
LINE 2:     AS integer
            ^

You'd need to edit the dump output to remove the "AS integer" clause
in order to get this dump to load into a pre-v10 server.

Alternatively, I believe creating the column as BIGSERIAL would result in
dump files that would reload into older servers without adjustments.

            regards, tom lane