Added to TODO:
o Remove pre-7.3 pg_dump code that assumes pg_depend does not exit
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Whether there's any need to support the old protocol in the server depends on
> > whether there are any clients out there which use it which is harder to
> > determine and not affected by whether Postgres 7.3 is still around.
>
> Right. There's really not much to be gained by dropping it on the
> server side anyway. libpq might possibly be simplified by a useful
> amount, but on the other hand we probably want to keep its current
> structure for the inevitable v4 protocol.
>
> Another area where we might think about dropping some stuff is pg_dump.
> If we got rid of the requirement to support dumps from pre-7.3 servers
> then it could assume server-side dependencies exist, and lose all the
> code for trying to behave sanely without 'em.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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