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Re: [doc] remove reference to pg_dump pre-8.1 switch behaviour

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-10-26T07:18:00Z
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On 25/10/2020 23:56, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:09:26PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Findings in detail follow.
> 
> Are you working on a patch for these ?

I pushed the patch I included in that email now, to remove the most 
clear cases. I'm not planning to do anything more right now.

> Otherwise, since I started something similar in April, I could put something
> together based on comments you've gotten here.

That'd be great, thanks!

- Heikki

Commits

  1. doc: Remove more notes about compatibilities with past versions

  2. docs: Remove notes about incompatibilies with very old versions.

  3. doc: Remove reference to pre-8.2 pg_dump behaviour

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

  5. Revise psql pattern-matching switches as per discussion. The rule is now

  6. Improve description of the pattern matching rules used by psql's \d