Re: reindexdb & clusterdb broken against pre-7.3 servers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, noah(at)leadboat(dot)com
Subject: Re: reindexdb & clusterdb broken against pre-7.3 servers
Date: 2019-05-06 13:49:07
Message-ID: 21885.1557150547@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 08:32:44AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Why do we even have code referring to pre-7.3 servers? Wouldn't it be
>> simpler just to remove that code?

> Even for pg_dump, we only support servers down to 8.0. Let's nuke
> this code.

+1. I think psql claims to support down to 7.4, but that's still not
a precedent for trying to handle pre-7.3. Also, the odds that we'd
not break this code path again in future seem pretty bad.

regards, tom lane

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