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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: -HEAD pg_dumpall broken against older backends
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Msg-id 442AC85D.4030906@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: -HEAD pg_dumpall broken against older backends  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
>
>

We don't expect pg_dumpall to be issuing invalid SQL at any time,
though. That's what Stefan has uncovered. The code in question is only
called when it's run against an older server.

cheers

andrew

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