On 10/7/16 1:08 PM, Steve Crawford wrote:
This is effectively a 5-year upgrade "grace period" *after* the EOL date of a given version which seems plenty generous.
IMHO we need to be careful here. It's not at all unusual to see servers running versions that are *far* older than that. It's certainly understandable that we're not actively supporting those versions any more, but we also don't want people to effectively be stranded on them because they can't even get the data out and back into a newer version. So I think pg_dump at least should try to support as far back as we can without jumping to lots of hoops in code. I think moving the limit to 8.0 is fine, but I'm not so comfortable with making that limit 9.1.
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