| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql client/server compatibility matrix? |
| Date: | 2005-07-26 03:02:30 |
| Message-ID: | 22269.1122346950@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:56, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> pg_dump should be able to dump any older version. It's a bug otherwise.
> But FYI that backwards compatibility was introduced around 7.3 or 7.4
> version. Before that you'd have issues. I know from experience that V
> 7.2 pg_dump / pg_dumpall had issues with 7.0 and / or 7.1 or something
> like that. Not sure the exact versions.
pg_dump believes it can dump from any server back to 7.0; if it can't,
that's a bug, and details would be appreciated.
Note however that the *output* of pg_dump is not guaranteed to load into
a server older than the pg_dump's own version.
regards, tom lane
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