Re: testing pg_dump against very old versions

2018-09-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 09/22/2018 12:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: In the interest of advancing $subject, I recently started a little skunkworks project to get old postgres running on modern systems so we could test if we'd broken backwards compatibility somehow. This was given a fillip a few days ago when my

Re: testing pg_dump against very old versions

2018-09-22 Thread Michael Paquier
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:46:31PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Meanwhile, it would be good for people to think about creating a TAP testing > regime for this. Patch 0001 from this email, or something rather similar to that, could be used:

testing pg_dump against very old versions

2018-09-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
In the interest of advancing $subject, I recently started a little skunkworks project to get old postgres running on modern systems so we could test if we'd broken backwards compatibility somehow. This was given a fillip a few days ago when my colleague Gianni Ciolli complained that it uses