Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:54, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Only if people dump their old databases with 7.3 pg_dump; which is an
>> assumption I'd rather not make if we can avoid it.
> I don't understand.
> The only pg_dump we can fix is 7.3.
Certainly. But if we hack the backend so it still accepts OPAQUE, then
we can still load 7.2 dump files.
> If someone restores into 7.3 with a 7.2 dump they are going to have
> other problems, such as turning all their functions private.
True, but they can fix that after-the-fact. Not sure if there is any
good workaround for the PL-handler problem in a 7.2 pg_dumpall script.
regards, tom lane