On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"Jeffrey Baker" <
jwbaker@gmail.com> writes:
> It is impossible to dump (with pg_dump -Ocx) and restore (with psql) a
> database which contains sequences in any of 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3:
sweeping claim were true.
Last time this problem came up, in August, you dismissed it somewhat rudely. So perhaps the lack of reports is due more to perception than any other thing.
What I suspect is that you are using 8.1's pg_dump, and you have tripped
over one of the corner cases that made us redesign dumping of serial
sequences for 8.2. Do you get better results if you dump the problem
database with 8.2 or 8.3 pg_dump?
What's the corner case exactly? 8.3 dumps it correctly, but that's not really much of a consolation because I need to restore _this_ dump, not some other one. It was necessary for me to recreate all the sequences and set the curvals manually.
Can't the fix be backported to 8.1?
-jwb