Re: pgsql client/server compatibility matrix?

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:56, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> What do you mean by "client version"? If you're talking about libpq,
> then any version can talk to any version of the DB (AFAIK). It's all
> compatable.
>
> pg_dump should be able to dump any older version. It's a bug otherwise.

But FYI that backwards compatibility was introduced around 7.3 or 7.4
version.  Before that you'd have issues.  I know from experience that V
7.2 pg_dump / pg_dumpall had issues with 7.0 and / or 7.1 or something
like that.  Not sure the exact versions.