On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 19:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > [warning and instructions for downgrading PostgreSQL] > 1. Why would you need to edit the dump file? Because it might not load into a server with a lower version. > 2. It's not 2013 anymore: Use multiple threads when backing up! You cannot do that with the "plain" format, since it writes to a single file. And you cannot use the "directory" format that would allow parallelization, because you cannot edit the DDL statements with a binary format. Just don't downgrade PostgreSQL. There is no good reason to do that. Yours, Laurenz Albe
