ISTR this question coming up before, but I couldn't find an answer. Is there a reason we don't build versions of pg_dump and pg_dumpall that are statically linked against libpq so they can be run uninstalled as part of a migration process? I should have thought that this would be extremely easy - just a few Makefile changes. Then the recommended procedure could go 1. build. 2 dump using static pg_dump/pg_dumpall. 3 stop old server. 4 move old installation aside. 5. install new build. 6 initdb. 7 restore.
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Just add -static to the CFLAGS in src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile IIRC. I do this all the time :) Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match