Re: Older version of PGSQL help - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Older version of PGSQL help
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Msg-id 20071205175147.GA32701@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: Older version of PGSQL help  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:53:45AM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> The issue Andrew is bringing up here is that really new PostgreSQL
> versions probably aren't necessairly backward compatible talking to or
> reading dumps from your 7.0 system, so your odds are better trying to
> upgrade to 7.3 instead of a really recent one.  But be warned that 7.3 is
> going away relatively soon as well.

Right.  Note that you probably do want to test your client against versions
later than 7.0 -- I seem to recall we ran into some corner cases in
upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2, so 7.0 to 7.3 may well have a similar issue.

A


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