Re: Older version of PGSQL help

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Older version of PGSQL help
Date: 2007-12-05 17:51:47
Message-ID: 20071205175147.GA32701@crankycanuck.ca
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:53:45AM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> The issue Andrew is bringing up here is that really new PostgreSQL
> versions probably aren't necessairly backward compatible talking to or
> reading dumps from your 7.0 system, so your odds are better trying to
> upgrade to 7.3 instead of a really recent one. But be warned that 7.3 is
> going away relatively soon as well.

Right. Note that you probably do want to test your client against versions
later than 7.0 -- I seem to recall we ran into some corner cases in
upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2, so 7.0 to 7.3 may well have a similar issue.

A

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