Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions
Date: 2021-12-03 17:28:11
Message-ID: a18fa641-88b8-257e-5848-135a397d6e4d@dunslane.net
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On 12/3/21 12:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> [ policy requiring that 9.2 and up be kept buildable, as of today ]
> I experimented to see what this would entail exactly. Using
> current macOS (Apple clang version 13.0.0) on M1 hardware,
> I built with minimal configure options (--enable-debug --enable-cassert)
> and ran the core regression tests.

I've mentioned my efforts on fedora previously. But like you I used a
minimal configuration. So what would be reasonable to test? I know you
mentioned building with perl and python upthread so we could possibly
test transforms. Anything else? I don't think we need to worry about all
the authentication-supporting options. XML/XSLT maybe.

cheers

andrew

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