On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:45:16 -0700,
Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu> wrote:
> Steve Wampler wrote:
> >
> >I realize 7.2.4 is long in the tooth, but it's an old system that's been
> >running for several years now. Someday we'll upgrade...
There are more recent releases even within the 7.2.x series. I believe there
will be a new one announced today or tomorrow.
> >
> >However, part of the upgrade will involve dumping and restoring the
> >tables. I've just did a little playing with pg_dump on one of
> >the databases and discovered that I can't restore it! Is this
> >a known problem? If so, is there a workaround? Is this operator
> >error? If so, can someone point me to what I did wrong?
When you do you upgrade, if possible you should use a pg_dump{all} client
from the new version rather than the old version. Newer versions of
pg_dump handle dependencies better.