Greetings, * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > > * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > >> Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > >>> I wonder- what if we had an option to pg_dump to explicitly tell it what > >>> the server's version is and then have TAP tests to run with different > >>> versions? > > >> Uh ... telling it what the version is doesn't make that true, so I'd > >> have no confidence in a test^H^H^H^Hkluge done that way. The way > >> to test is to point it at an *actual* back-branch server. > > > I certainly agree that this would be ideal, but nonetheless, I've seen > > multiple cases where just trying to run the query, even against a > > current version, would have shown that it's malformed or has some issue > > which needs fixing and today we haven't even got that. > > Yeah, but cases where we need to touch column C in one version and column > D in another can't be made to pass when pg_dump is operating under a false > assumption about the server version. So this seems like a nonstarter.
Yes, there are cases that wouldn't work. I'd be much happier with a complete solution, were that forthcoming. Thanks! Stephen
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