Re: [HACKERS] Allow pg_dumpall to work without pg_authid

Greetings,

* Sachin Kotwal (kotsachin@gmail.com) wrote:
> Thanks. I understand this is small but new feature and not bug fix.
> But we should be able to backpatch if there is no dependency.

No, it's a new feature and won't be back-patched.

> It will help users to get benefit of this feature for g96 and pg95 in RDS
> until they will have pg10 in RDS.

There is no need to wait for pg10 to be in RDS to use PG10's pg_dumpall
against RDS databases.  pg_dump and pg_dumpall are very intentionally
designed and intended to work against older versions of PG, so as soon
as PG10 is released you'll be able to run PG10's pg_dumpall against your
9.6 or 9.5 RDS databases.

> If It is against community policy then it is ok. I can understand.

It is against community policy to back-patch features.

Thanks!

Stephen