Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Le jeudi 31 janvier 2008, Tom Lane a ?crit?:
> > We have *never* promised that pg_dump version N could dump from server
> > version N+1 .., in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard
> > error, rather than something people could override with -i.
>
> Are you thinking about next major or minor version ? All the same?
> Is there some real good reason not to dump say 8.2.6 server with the pg_dump
> from an 8.2.5 installation?

They are talking about cross-major dumps, 8.2 pg_dump dumping an 8.3
database. They are saying that should be disallowed.

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"Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Le jeudi 31 janvier 2008, Tom Lane a ?crit?:
>> > We have *never* promised that pg_dump version N could dump from server
>> > version N+1 .., in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard
>> > error, rather than something people could override with -i.
>>
>> Are you thinking about next major or minor version ? All the same?
>> Is there some real good reason not to dump say 8.2.6 server with the pg_dump
>> from an 8.2.5 installation?
>
> They are talking about cross-major dumps, 8.2 pg_dump dumping an 8.3
> database. They are saying that should be disallowed.

And just to be clearly *only* cross-major dumps with an *older* pg_dump than
the database. Dumping with a newer pg_dump than the database is the
recommended way to do cross-major dumps.

Perhaps we can have something like --force-unsupported-incompatible-connections

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