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From: Jaime Casanova <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CREATE USER
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:55:19 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>

are we going to do this in this release?
i never was able to think in a good phrasing for this, though

-- 
Jaime Casanova         www.2ndQuadrant.com
Professional PostgreSQL: Soporte 24x7 y capacitación

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