Re: -HEAD pg_dumpall broken against older backends

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Subject: Re: -HEAD pg_dumpall broken against older backends
Date: 2006-03-29 17:48:10
Message-ID: 23255.1143654490@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> looks like somebody forgot to test some changes to the pg_dumpall
>> code in Revision 1.70 against <8.1 installations - resulting in the
>> following syntax error:

> Dump output is never expected to be backward compatible.

But pg_dumpall should be able to extract a dump from an older server.

regards, tom lane

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