Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-9.2 servers.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 30e7c175b81d53c0f60f6ad12d1913a6d7d77008
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2021-12-14T22:09:07Z
Releases: 15.0
Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-9.2 servers.

Per discussion, we'll limit support for old servers to those branches
that can still be built easily on modern platforms, which as of now
is 9.2 and up.  Remove over a thousand lines of code dedicated to
dumping from older server versions.  (As in previous changes of
this sort, we aren't removing pg_restore's ability to read older
archive files ... though it's fair to wonder how that might be
tested nowadays.)  This cleans up some dead code left behind by
commit 989596152.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2923349.1634942313@sss.pgh.pa.us

Files

PathChange+/−
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml modified +5 −14
src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c modified +5 −27
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c modified +3 −6
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c modified +45 −227
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c modified +359 −1487

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