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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Using FDW to connect to a more recent postgres version?
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Koen De Groote <kdg.dev@gmail.com> writes:
> The documentation speaks only of compatibility in terms of connecting to
> older version:
>> postgres_fdw can be used with remote servers dating back to PostgreSQL
>> 8.3. Read-only capability is available back to 8.1.
> But what about connecting to a foreign server that is more recent? Like
> pg14 connecting to pg17?

I'd expect it to work, but it's not a scenario that we test.

			regards, tom lane