2006/11/30, Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>:
> The main reason it's not done so is because pg_dump is working across
> server versions. You will want to do the dump using the newer pg_dump,
> because it can create SQL which compensates for postgres internal
> changes like user/group/role creation syntax and the like.
>
> If you tie the dump software to the server, how will you do a dump of an
> old server using the new dump client ?
I'm not sure I understand...why would you want to do that? Why not
dump the old database with the old dump logic?
t.n.a.
