Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw3Hl-0004Pd-T7 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 14:55:53 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw3Hk-0000Wl-Q2 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 14:55:52 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw3Hk-0000WZ-IV for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 14:55:52 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw3Hi-0008I4-90 for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 14:55:51 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 24VEtilk177994; Tue, 31 May 2022 10:55:44 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" cc: "pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Can we still dump version 7? In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" message dated "Tue, 31 May 2022 14:26:09 -0000" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <177992.1654008944.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 10:55:44 -0400 Message-ID: <177993.1654008944@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" writes: > I guess this statement is not true anymore? > "Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server ver= sion back to 7.0." > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html = Ugh, missed that, thanks for spotting it. I wonder whether we should update this or just remove it --- it's clearly something that's likely to get missed again. regards, tom lane