"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. >> Hi, >> >> Le jeudi 31 janvier 2008, Tom Lane a ?crit?: >> > We have *never* promised that pg_dump version N could dump from server >> > version N+1 .., in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard >> > error, rather than something people could override with -i. >> >> Are you thinking about next major or minor version ? All the same? >> Is there some real good reason not to dump say 8.2.6 server with the pg_dump >> from an 8.2.5 installation? > > They are talking about cross-major dumps, 8.2 pg_dump dumping an 8.3 > database. They are saying that should be disallowed.
And just to be clearly *only* cross-major dumps with an *older* pg_dump than the database. Dumping with a newer pg_dump than the database is the recommended way to do cross-major dumps. Perhaps we can have something like --force-unsupported-incompatible-connections 1/2 :) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
