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Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-12-13T17:33:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:23 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I've done as much as I plan to do in that direction.  As of the
> respective branch tips, I see clean builds and check-world
> results with minimal configure options in all branches back to 9.2
> on Fedora 35 (gcc 11.2.1) and macOS Monterey (Apple clang 13.0.0).

I think this is great. Thanks for being willing to work on it.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Remove psql support for server versions preceding 9.2.

  2. Clean up some more freshly-dead code in pg_dump and pg_upgrade.

  3. Remove pg_dump's --no-synchronized-snapshots switch.

  4. Remove pg_upgrade support for upgrading from pre-9.2 servers.

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

  6. Suppress -Warray-bounds warning in 9.2's xlog.c.

  7. Suppress -Wformat-overflow warnings in 9.2's xml.c.

  8. Disable -Wsometimes-uninitialized warnings in the 9.2 branch.

  9. Fix function return type confusion

  10. Fix compiler warning

  11. Silence another gcc 11 warning.

  12. Suppress uninitialized-variable warning in guc.c.

  13. Suppress -Warray-parameter warnings in pgcrypto/sha2.c.

  14. Reformat imath.c macro to remove -Wmisleading-indentation warnings.

  15. Clean up compilation warnings coming from PL/Perl with clang-12~

  16. Make ecpg's rjulmdy() and rmdyjul() agree with their declarations.

  17. Use -Wno-format-truncation and -Wno-stringop-truncation, if available.

  18. Make pg_upgrade's test.sh less chatty.

  19. Add checks for valid multibyte character length in UtfToLocal, LocalToUtf.

  20. Use return instead of exit() in configure

  21. Add support for Visual Studio 2019 in build scripts