On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Dave Page wrote:

> We always build against the absolute latest version of PostgreSQL -
> pg_dump is backwards compatible so it should always work. Of course,
> it's not beyond he realms of possibility that it might produce a dump
> that cannot be re-imported into an old version of PostgreSQL, but
> if you
> run into that situation, about all you can do is either upgrade, or
> replace pg_dump with an older version.

The effort may not be warranted here, but for my applications which
need PostgreSQL utilities I have 3 options:

1. built-in version included with the distribution (default)
2. whatever is found on the program path
3. the user can specify the PostgreSQL bin path to use


>
>
>> I think that I can find a way to copy pg_dump and pg_restore into the
>> bundle (during "make install"), but I'll be very busy the
>> next few days,
>> so it'll have to wait until the weekend.
>>
>
> OK, great - thanks.

Excellent, I think this is the best option.



John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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