Re: grant on sequence and pg_restore/pg_dump problem

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
>
>
So for admin tool vendors, we need to now ship more than one copy of
pg_restore?
Wasn't the restore pretty much backwards compatible until now?
Certainly pg_restore must know what version of the server it's
connecting to, shouldn't it be able to adjust the GRANT ON so on versions
<  8.2 it does not use the SEQUENCE keyword?

Thanks,

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