On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 12:28:06PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote:
> What I am proposing is *import* functions. I didn't say anything about
> how pg_dump obtains the data it prints; however, I would advocate that
> we keep that part as simple as possible. You cannot expect export
> functionality to know the requirements of future server versions,
> so I don't think it's useful to put much intelligence there.
>
> True, but presumably you'd be using the pg_dump/pg_upgrade of that future
> version to do the exporting, so the export format would always be tailored to
> the importer's needs.
I think the question is whether we will have the export functionality in
the old cluster, or if it will be queries run by pg_dump and therefore
also run by pg_upgrade calling pg_dump.
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