On 30-Nov-06, at 12:54 PM, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes:
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>> If you tie the dump software to the server, how will you do a dump
>> of an
>> old server using the new dump client ?
>
> Simply by leaving a deprecated, backward-compatibility mode in
> the pg_dump client?
>
> Or, as said above, even more simply by using an old client.
>
> I think everyone agrees that a dump involves a good knowledge of
> internal server data. So I fully agree with Tomi: it seems a bit
> awkward to implement this externally.
>
What Csaba is saying is that newer versions of pg_dump can work with
older server versions.
regarding port 5432, pg_dump can use any port, server, user, you
want. It is quite versatile.
Dave
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