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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CREATE USER
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:27:37 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Well, I know we support the new pg_dump dumping back to 7.1, but I don't
> know what our policy is for accepting old dumps.

We're still going to very large lengths to load pre-7.3 dumps; see
for instance ConvertTriggerToFK() in trigger.c.  I'm not aware of any
policy that would suggest blowing off pre-8.1 dumps should be
acceptable.  Yeah, it's true that the *recommended* procedure is to
use the newer pg_dump, but people aren't always in a position to do
that.

I think it might be sane to emit a WARNING suggesting that CREATEUSER
might not mean what you think, but failing is probably not good.

			regards, tom lane

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