Re: pg_dump issue across different versions (7.1.2 & 7.2).

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bhuvan A <bhuvansql(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump issue across different versions (7.1.2 & 7.2).
Date: 2002-03-09 15:32:52
Message-ID: 4110.1015687972@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bhuvan A <bhuvansql(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> what seems to be the problem here??

7.1 pg_dump will not work against a 7.2 server. In general there is
little hope of pg_dump version N working against server version > N;
it cannot know about later changes to the system catalog layout.
(And practically every major release has some.)

We have kept backwards compatibility since 7.0, though --- eg,
7.2 pg_dump still remembers how to get catalog info from 7.0 and
7.1 servers.

regards, tom lane

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