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Re: Can we still dump version 7?

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>, "pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-05-31T18:47:23Z
Lists: pgsql-docs 
On 5/31/22 12:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
>> On 5/31/22 10:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Further investigation shows that we've failed to update this twice in
> the past six years, and failed to update a similar comment about psql
> once.  I fixed 'em, but I have very little hope that they'll stay fixed.

Could we add as part of the branching procedure that we update this value?

Jonathan

Commits

  1. Doc: fix mention of psql's minimum supported server version.

  2. Doc: fix mention of pg_dump's minimum supported server version.

  3. Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers.