Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 02:00:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, that :-(. pg_dump's approach to cross-version catalog differences
>> can only cope with differences between major versions. So if it sees
>> a server that calls itself 11-something it's going to think that means
>> the current catalog layout. There's no good way to deal with pre-beta
>> snapshot versions, other than to dump with a pg_dump of the same vintage.
> Thanks for confirming.
> In this case I worked around it by doing:
> sudo ln -sfv /usr/pgsql-11{dev0,b1}/bin/pg_dump
> sudo ln -sfv /usr/pgsql-11{dev0,b1}/bin/pg_dumpall
> I guess, if need be, pg_dump could look at CATALOG_VERSION..
Yeah, if somebody cared to take on a bunch more maintenance effort,
it'd be possible to distinguish at that level of detail. So far
it hasn't seemed worth the trouble.
regards, tom lane
