Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> In the end, the experiences I've had with pg_dump of late and trying to
> ensure that pg_dump 9.6 is able to work all the way back to *7.0*, makes
> me think that this notion of putting the one-and-only real test-suite we
> have into the core repo almost laughable.
um... why are you trying to do that? We moved the goalposts last fall:
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Branch: master [64f3524e2] 2016-10-12 12:20:02 -0400
Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers.
regards, tom lane