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