Re: pg_dump weirdness

I’ll capture the warnings on Monday and share them here, but I honestly saw nothing that should have broken the load. Plus, no one has mentioned why the restore took over 1/2 hour but nothing was loaded.

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> On Nov 5, 2021, at 20:47, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "MichaelDBA(at)sqlexec(dot)com" <michaeldba(at)sqlexec(dot)com> writes:
>> You cannot use a newer version of pgdump to export and then insert it into an older version of PostgreSQL if I am understanding you correctly.
>
> Well, you can try. You might get errors from DDL syntax the older server
> doesn't understand, but usually that won't happen if the dump is taken
> from a server of that vintage or older. We don't promise anything, but
> I'd expect it to usually work.
>
> I'm a little suspicious of the OP's claim that there were only warnings
> and not errors while trying to restore the dump -- an error would go a
> long way towards explaining the report. In any case, we'd need to see
> all those warnings to have much chance of diagnosing this.
>
> regards, tom lane