Re: Disabling function validation

Tom Lane wrote:

>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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>>Should we add a variable that is set from the dump filew that identifies
>>the version of PostgreSQL that generated the dump?
>>    SET dumped_version = 7.3
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>Is that identifying the backend version, or the pg_dump version?
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>Without a solid rationale for this, I'd rather not do it.
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Why not both?  I would also think this info could be used in pg_restore 
in some way at some point.  Even if if can't, wouldn't it be worth it 
just for debugging purposes.  Knowing for sure what the backend and 
pg_dump versions were could be helpful.