Re: Can we still dump version 7?

[Jonathan S. Katz]

On 5/31/22 10:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

"Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westerm...@dbi-services.com> writes:

I guess this statement is not true anymore?
"Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server version back to 
7.0."
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html

Ugh, missed that, thanks for spotting it.

I wonder whether we should update this or just remove it --- it's
clearly something that's likely to get missed again.

Jonathan

While burdensome, +1 for updating. We don't want users to get caught by surprise if pg_dumpall does not work on an old version when trying to update to a newer version.

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