On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>>>> I wonder if we ought to consider removing CREATEUSER and NOCREATEUSER
>>>>> as synonyms for SUPERUSER and NOSUPERUSER. ?It looks like that change
>>>>> was made in 8.1, which is now EOL.
>
>>>> Agreed. ?They might still appear in dumps so maybe just remove
>>>> documentation about them.
>
>>> They shouldn't appear in any non-ancient dumps, and we don't guarantee
>>> that those will work anyway: you're suppose to pg_dump with the new
>>> version of pg_dump, running against the old cluster.
>
>> Well, we have pg_dump support for 7.3 dumps (2002), so I don't see a
>> reason to remove that capability. Now, if we want to remove that
>> support, then it would make sense to remove the rest, but I think people
>> are still assuming old dumps can load, especially if they have the dump
>> but not the 7.3 server installed.
>
> I think removing them from the docs but continuing to accept them makes
> sense. We do still hear from people migrating from 7.4 or older, and
> it's not always going to be practical for them to make a dump with a
> newer pg_dump.
Personally, I loathe all that is undocumented. But that might just be me.
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