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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Westermann (DWE) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can we still dump version 7?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 14:47:23 -0400
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On 5/31/22 12:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <[email protected]> writes:
>> On 5/31/22 10:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I wonder whether we should update this or just remove it --- it's
>>> clearly something that's likely to get missed again.
>
>> While burdensome, +1 for updating. We don't want users to get caught by
>> surprise if pg_dumpall does not work on an old version when trying to
>> update to a newer version.
>
> Further investigation shows that we've failed to update this twice in
> the past six years, and failed to update a similar comment about psql
> once. I fixed 'em, but I have very little hope that they'll stay fixed.
Could we add as part of the branching procedure that we update this value?
Jonathan
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