* Tom Lane (tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxx> writes: > > Is it valid to dump a 9.0 db with a 9.4 pg_dump and make use of the > > parallel feature? TIA. > > Yes, but be aware that 9.4 pg_dump will be generating output meant to > be loaded into a 9.4 server. You might have to make some adjustments > if you mean to reload it into 9.0. Also be aware that you won't get a synchronized snapshot and therefore the resulting dump might not be valid.. Looking at pg_dump, for my 2c anyway, it'd be nicer if we threw an error on parallel dump request when the major version doesn't support synchronized snapshots, unless the user explicitly passed --no-synchronized-snapshots, indicating that they don't care. Thanks, Stephen
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