Re: question about client/server version mismatches

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:45:35PM +1000, raf wrote:
> Since the backup itself was from a 9.5.12 server, it
> seems that the 9.6 parameter, idle_in_transaction_session_timeout,
> must have been set by the 9.6 client even though it was
> connected to a 9.5 server. Is that expected behaviour?

Yes, the compatibility of pg_dump is mentioned in the docs, and things
happen so as pg_dump can be used to transfer data to newer versions:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/app-pgdump.html
Please see from "Because pg_dump is used to transfer data to newer
versions of PostgreSQL...".

So doing a dump from a 9.5 instance using pg_dump from 9.6 would have
set the parameter.
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Michael