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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Westermann (DWE) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can we still dump version 7?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 10:57:51 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On 5/31/22 10:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <[email protected]> writes:
>> I guess this statement is not true anymore?
>> "Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server version 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.

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.

Jonathan


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