Re: grant on sequence and pg_restore/pg_dump problem

Tony Caduto wrote:
> Hi,
> I did a quick search and didn't see anything on this, if I missed it
> sorry in advance.
> Anyway, I was doing a restore of a 8.1 database(on a 8.1 server) using
> the 8.2 pg_restore and it was throwing errors when it was trying to
> restore the permissions on the sequences.
> basically the pg_restore was using the grant on sequence against the 8.1
> database which of course 8.1 knows nothing about.
>
> Is there a switch or something I missed that would allow this to work
> properly on a 8.1 or lower database?
> Or do I have to now have 2 versions of dump/restore in order to do this?

You can use 8.2 to dump 8.1, but for restore, you should use the same
version as the target database.

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