Robert Haas wrote:
> > I think users would rather have the restore fail, and know right away
> > they have an issue, than to do the upgrade, and find out later that some
> > of their application queries fail and they need to run around fixing
> > them. ?(FYI, pg_upgrade would use the new pg_dump and would not fail.)
> >
> > In a way, the fact that the restore fails can be seen as a feature ---
> > they get the error before the go live on 8.4. ?(Yeah, I am serious.)
> 
> Eeh, I've had this happen to me on earlier releases, and it didn't
> feel like a feature to me.  YMMV, of course.

Would you have preferred later application failure?

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