Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> I believe 7.4 pg_dump should work against a 7.3 database (and further back
> IIRC).
It will, but I don't think we guarantee that the output will load into a
pre-7.4 database --- pg_dump usually assumes its SQL output can take
advantage of all the features it knows about.
This might work more-or-less-okay for 7.3, but you'd better test before
depending on it.
regards, tom lane