Re: The missing pg_get_*def functions

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> > One of the things that we frequently recommend when doing
>> > upgrades is that you do the dump with the newer version's pg_dump, so
>> > as to get the benefits of any bug fixes that are in it. The more
>> > dump functionality is on the server side, the less opportunity we have
>> > to repair things that way.
>>
>> But why wouldn't we be able to fix the version in the server, if it
>> turns out to be buggy? I suppose we wouldn't fix bugs discovered
>> after EOL, but I'm not sure that's a sufficient objection.
>
> There are other things beyond bugs here.. Changes in reserved keywords
> is actually the biggest reason, ime, to use the newer pg_dump when
> you're trying to move to a newer PG version.

Oh. Good point.

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