Re: migrating data from an old postgres version - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Melvin Davidson
Subject Re: migrating data from an old postgres version
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In response to Re: migrating data from an old postgres version  (Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: migrating data from an old postgres version  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:

pg_dump is backwards compatible to version 7.0.

Yes but is it forward compatible from 7.0?
I mean can i restore a dump made with pg_dump 7.0 on a 9.4 database?

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Willy-Bas Loos

Yes, That is the whole point of backwards compatability!  That is how upgrades are done.

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