On 11/20/13, 11:31 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > Couldn't that be an issue for people who have multiple major versions of > binaries installed? In particular, the "default" on the system for psql > might be 9.3 while the cluster you're trying to recover may be 9.2. Of > course, in that case you might say to use the 9.2 psql, which would be > fair, but what if you're looking to get the data out of the 9.2 DB and > into the 9.3? In that case, we'd recommend using the 9.3 pg_dump.
Right. And also, in emergency situations you might have a custom built postgres binary lying around in a separate path that includes a patch from a mailing list you're supposed to test or something. Best not to make that even more difficult. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
