How can I get a plain text postgres database dump on heroku?

Question

Due to version incompatibilities of my postgres database on heroku (9.1) and my local installation (8.4) I need a plain text sql database dump file so I can put a copy of my

Answer 1

Heroku pg:backups:capture
Heroku pg:backups:download

Taken from https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-import-export. Now you have a binary file. To obtain the file in plain text format, the following worked for me. Note: You will need to install PostgreSQL.

pg_restore latest.dump > latest.sql