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  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.

  1. Can we still dump version 7?

    Daniel Westermann (DWE) <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> — 2022-05-31T14:26:09Z

    Hi,

this commit (64f3524e2c8deebc02808aa5ebdfa17859473add) removed dump support for dumping from  pre-8.0. 

I guess this statement is not true anymore?
"Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server version back to 7.0."
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html 

Regards
Daniel

  2. Re: Can we still dump version 7?

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2022-05-31T14:55:44Z

    "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> writes:
> I guess this statement is not true anymore?
> "Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server version back to 7.0."
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html 

Ugh, missed that, thanks for spotting it.

I wonder whether we should update this or just remove it --- it's
clearly something that's likely to get missed again.

			regards, tom lane

  3. Re: Can we still dump version 7?

    Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> — 2022-05-31T14:57:51Z

    On 5/31/22 10:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> writes:
>> I guess this statement is not true anymore?
>> "Current releases of the dump programs can read data from any server version back to 7.0."
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html
> 
> Ugh, missed that, thanks for spotting it.
> 
> 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.

Jonathan

  4. Re: Can we still dump version 7?

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2022-05-31T16:21:09Z

    "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.

			regards, tom lane

  5. Re: Can we still dump version 7?

    Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> — 2022-05-31T18:47:23Z

    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