On 5/31/22 10:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> writes:
>> I guess this statement is not true anymore?
>> "Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server version back to 7.0."
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html
>
> Ugh, missed that, thanks for spotting it.
>
> I wonder whether we should update this or just remove it --- it's
> clearly something that's likely to get missed again.
While burdensome, +1 for updating. We don't want users to get caught by
surprise if pg_dumpall does not work on an old version when trying to
update to a newer version.
Jonathan
