On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 23:44:44 -0400,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> The thing that makes this slightly painful is that we can't tell what
> version we are dumping *from* until we've connected, and so we cannot
> automagically "do the right thing" here. I don't really see any other
> way to do it than the try-and-fallback approach.
But after falling back to template1, a version check could be made and
if running 8.1 or higher an error message could be displayed.