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charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: dbi-services.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthAs: Internal X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthSource: GV0P278MB0419.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: a2daab2f-4312-41ac-f020-08da431f44b6 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 31 May 2022 16:04:40.2077 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: b9c70613-b1ea-47b7-9fdd-e6f3a67ce75c X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-mailboxtype: HOSTED X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-userprincipalname: 5l/sgCIQXImDIKgg+vpUW0hhO0nZR1kixl27TvujwnLaKzvkjjiqa+cFlc1P3Zg+B9w2INQky0biHmULHHQt1hrSLjohA9mqtwtcQXvwmqpPZK355PDXe5Lqz6lyA88x X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: GV0P278MB0084 List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk >> =0A= >> Ugh, missed that, thanks for spotting it.=0A= >> I wonder whether we should update this or just remove it --- it's=0A= >> clearly something that's likely to get missed again.=0A= =0A= >While burdensome, +1 for updating. We don't want users to get caught by = =0A= >surprise if pg_dumpall does not work on an old version when trying to =0A= >update to a newer version.=0A= =0A= What about something like this:=0A= "Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any supported ver= sion of PostgreSQL. You can expect the last XXX unsupported versions to wor= k as well. If you cannot dump your version of PostgreSQL with the current r= eleases you need to take an extra step and use a version of the dump progra= ms which can still read from your old release."=0A= =0A= That would remove the version number and there is no risk we miss it again = in the future. I am not sure about the official policy for that, though.=0A= =0A= Regards=0A= Daniel=0A=