Re: pg_dump 17 produces files incompatible with older server versions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: pg_dump 17 produces files incompatible with older server versions
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Msg-id 8C1019F1-2158-4404-9F12-F4505AF833E2@yesql.se
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In response to pg_dump 17 produces files incompatible with older server versions  (Sam Kidman <sam@fresho.com>)
List pgsql-general
> On 2 Oct 2024, at 07:23, Sam Kidman <sam@fresho.com> wrote:

> Are there any other solutions to this issue? It could be quite
> troublesome for us as we have a few different postgres server versions
> in use in different applications but we use the same set of client
> tools for all of them.

This is per design of pg_dump, the documentation states the following:

    "it is not guaranteed that pg_dump's output can be loaded into a server of
    an older major version — not even if the dump was taken from a server of
    that version.  Loading a dump file into an older server may require manual
    editing of the dump file to remove syntax not understood by the older
    server."

Running the appropriate version of pg_dump for the target cluster, or applying
manual (or scripted) editing of the dump file is the option.

--
Daniel Gustafsson




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