Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> Le jeudi 31 janvier 2008, Tom Lane a écrit :
>> We have *never* promised that pg_dump version N could dump from server
>> version N+1 .., in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard
>> error, rather than something people could override with -i.
> Are you thinking about next major or minor version ? All the same?
> Is there some real good reason not to dump say 8.2.6 server with the pg_dump
> from an 8.2.5 installation?
I'm thinking next major. In principle there could be cases where a
minor update could break pg_dump, but it seems unlikely enough that
it's not reasonable to embed such a policy in the code. As for
next major, though, the mere existence of the -i switch is a foot-gun
with no significant value.
regards, tom lane