> 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.
Nah, all you need to do is take the 8.0 pg_dump, hard-code that
--use-set-session-authorization is always enabled, and remove use of
pg_get_serial_sequence IIRC...
>>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.
Yep. But who knows to do that? :)
My 2c : we have an archive of statically compiled pg_dump binaries on
postgresql.org.
Cheers,
Chris