Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:09:30PM +0200, Bernd Helmle wrote: >> While playing around with various postgresql installations i recognized >> that pg_dump complaints even within major-releases about different >> minor-numbers, such as: >> >> pg_dump: server version: 8.2.4; pg_dump version: 8.2.0 >> >> I thought we are safe against pg_dump changes within a minor release, or >> i'm wrong?
> Unless there are fixes *in* pg_dump. The specific problem is that there might be a server behavioral change that pg_dump has to compensate for. (Obviously this is not very desirable, but we've had to make such changes in minor releases in the past.) 8.2.0 pg_dump cannot know the future, so it has to err on the side of caution and complain when it sees a newer server version. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend