On Jan 18, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In principle, ie in the absence of bugs, it should work either way. ... > The reason for the standard recommendation to use the newer version's > pg_dump is the possibility that your old pg_dump contains bugs that have > been fixed in the newer version. This is a non-negligible risk when > you're talking about a pg_dump that's several years old, as 9.1.7 is. > If you were comparing minor releases of similar date, eg 9.1.14 versus > 9.4.0, the risk calculation might shift the other way... Yep. I didn't want to say it out loud in the prior post, but I don't think I have ever actually used the new dump on the old db. Then again, I'm almost never more than 1 point release behind, so my way of doing things is not generally applicable ;-) -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
