Re: pg_dump and foreign keys troubles

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Paolo Negri" <hungrylist(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> My problem is that I have to load the dump (from a 7.3) in a brand new
> database (8.1) and then I need to do quite a few changes to the schema
> dropping some old foreign constraint and adding some different ones.
> ...
> How can I tell to pg_dump to dump the schema with foreign keys
> construct instead of creating constraint trigger?

You can't: the information just isn't there in 7.3.  You'll need to look
at the trigger arguments and reconstruct the FKs.

IIRC the contrib/adddepend script might be able to help you with this.

			regards, tom lane