> On Oct 6, 2022, at 09:46, Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Because installing new software on production servers requires hurdles (Service Now change ticket approved by the application support manager, Delivery Service Manager, Engineering Change Board, and a one week lead time before installing during the Saturday night maintenance window) that I'm not willing to jump through just to take an ad hoc database backup. Running the new pg_dump doesn't require that it be installed on the server, just that it have access to it. (I understand there may be access restrictions that make that inconvenient as well, but presumably *some* servers have access to 5432 and can be used to run pg_dump.)
