Re: pg_upgrade major version compatibility

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade major version compatibility
Date: 2022-09-06 22:10:18
Message-ID: 20220906221018.GV31833@telsasoft.com
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 01:50:10PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> The pg_upgrade manpage in PG 14 and earlier claims that upgrades from
> 8.4 are supported, but that doesn't work:

Tom discovered 2 months ago that this was broken since a year prior.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1973418.1657040382%40sss.pgh.pa.us

Evidently ever the docs still aren't updated to say or, nor the tool to
fail gracefully.

--
Justin

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