Re: -HEAD pg_dumpall broken against older backends - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.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