From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Subject: Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:29:19 +0200
Message-ID: <7b39fbd133400a6417855fe6ecdd1f04d6c45a34.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
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References: <2923349.1634942313@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<CA+TgmoboH6=SgWHPddv_8ie91Qf2ECKSvg-72aYajKb2gyLYQg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 19:26 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 6:42 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > So my first thought was just to revert 92316a458 and give up on it as
> > a bad idea. However ... does anyone actually still care about being
> > able to dump from such ancient servers?
>
> I think I recently heard about an 8.4 server still out there in the
> wild, but AFAICR it's been a long time since I've heard about anything
> older.
I had a customer with 8.3 in the not too distant past, but that need not
stop the show. If necessary, they can dump with 8.3 and restire that.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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