Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> > Effect: we would stop receiving complaints that an old pg_dump can talk
> > to a server that most likely is incompatible with it. People would
> > learn on the spot that they must install the newer pg_dump.
>
> I think a more moderate measure might be to clarify the error message
>
> "aborting because of version mismatch (Use the -i option to proceed
> anyway.)\n"
>
> I'm not sure how many of the mentioned complaints we are getting, but the
> error message might make people think that it's complaining because the
> versions are not equal rather than that the versions are known not
> compatible.
Agreed --- that error message is just prompting people to try something
they shouldn't and not explaining why.
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