Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes:
> 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.