Re: sequences not restoring properly

Brian Dimeler wrote:
> Doing it that way doesn't produce any errors, but it still produces
> incorrect sequence names and values.
Are these sequences that you created by hand and then associated with a
column? Versus using serial/bigserial types?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Doug McNaught wrote:
>
>> Brian Dimeler <briand@lserve.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I'm trying to transition a database from one server to another, the
>>> old one running Postgres 7.4.1 and the new, 8.1.1. When I try to
>>> restore using a pg_dump plaintext sql file from a nightly backup via
>>> the usual
>>>
>>> psql thedb < backup.sql
>>
>>
>> The best way to do this is to run the 8.1.1 pg_dump against the 7.4.1
>> server.  The new pg_dump will know better how to create a backup that
>> 8.1.1 will like.
>>
>> -Doug
>>
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