On 12 May 2010 20:18, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <thombr...@gmail.com> writes: > > On 12 May 2010 19:40, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > >>> Am I to gather that there are possible incompatibilities? > >> > >> Definitely. > > > In that case, it might be an idea to clarify that on the documentation. > I > > couldn't find this information. > > If it were true, it would be in the documentation. > > The reason for suggesting that you use the newer pg_dump during a > version upgrade is that the newer version might have bug fixes that > your current version lacks. In the absence of bugs, however, pg_restore > is supposed to read dump files produced by older versions of pg_dump. > If it fails to, that in itself is a filable bug. > > regards, tom lane >
Ah, I see. Thanks. Well I think that information would still be useful in the docs. Thom
