On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 12:28:06PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote: > What I am proposing is *import* functions. I didn't say anything about > how pg_dump obtains the data it prints; however, I would advocate that > we keep that part as simple as possible. You cannot expect export > functionality to know the requirements of future server versions, > so I don't think it's useful to put much intelligence there. > > True, but presumably you'd be using the pg_dump/pg_upgrade of that future > version to do the exporting, so the export format would always be tailored to > the importer's needs.
I think the question is whether we will have the export functionality in the old cluster, or if it will be queries run by pg_dump and therefore also run by pg_upgrade calling pg_dump. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Only you can decide what is important to you.
