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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>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-12-03T20:46:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> What's most likely to happen IMO is that committers will just start
> back-patching essential portability fixes into out-of-support-but-
> still-in-the-buildability-window branches, contemporaneously with
> the original fix.  Yeah, that does mean more committer effort,
> but only for a very small number of patches.

I agree. I think that's exactly what we want to have happen, and if a
given policy won't have exactly this result then the policy needs
adjusting.

-- 
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