Re: Patch: dumping tables data in multiple chunks in pg_dump

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>

Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-01-14T22:17:27Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2026-01-14 23:10:38 +0100, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Is this the whole guidelines we have for this ?

I don't think we have more written down in a central place.


> Did not recognise it at once, but I assume that this implies also
> things about backporting, as only way to backport something is to put
> it in a minor release.

Correct.


> I was hoping that there were some exceptions possible for things
> affecting interactions between different versions that need also
> support from older versions, but if this page is all we have then
> likely not.

I think we have made maybe a handful of exceptions over the years, not more.


> Do we have the same strict no improvements in minor versions policy
> for contrib/ extensions and tools?

Yes.

Greetings,

Andres Freund