I've never tried this but maybe it works if you use pg_dump
from 8.0 to do the dump.
Greetings
Robert
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I have a dump from 8.2 restored to file that was pg_dump'd with format c
> from a production server. I want to know if it is possible for me to
> restore this to a 8.0 development server where I am not able to upgrade
> at this time. Trying to do some testing, but this is the only other
> server that's available right now. I tried a normal restore and start
> getting errors relating to regclass:
>
> honeypot:~ # psql -U postgres trax < pgtrax.sql
> <snip>
> ERROR: cannot cast type text to regclass
> ERROR: relation "public.tblmenu" does not exist
> ERROR: function nextval(regclass) does not exist
>
> Is there a way I can prepare my dump to work? There is a lot of data, so
> I need to maintain COPY methods of inserting.
>
>