On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 09:26, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:02, Tom Lane wrote: > >> pg_dump believes it can dump from any server back to 7.0; if it can't, > >> that's a bug, and details would be appreciated. > > > I thought the backwards dumping compatibility thing was fairly new (i.e. > > it showed up around 7.3 or 7.4) and before that, if you used, say > > pg_dump from 7.1 to try and dump from 6.5 you'd get errors. > > That was true back in the 6.x days, but starting in 7.1 we had code in > pg_dump to work with a 7.0 server, and we've kept up that policy. > > Perhaps you are thinking of pg_dumpall specifically? That was a shell > script until 7.3, and before it was converted to C I don't think it had > much of any cross-version adaptability. Ding! That was it. I knew something had bitten me back in the day, but honestly, 7.2 is a fast fading memory. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
