Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> Is that any concern that over time newer pg_restore's won't read old
>> "custom" formats? That would be my only worry-- that the data would be
>> locked in a binary format which becomes unsupported.
> No, we wouldn't do that.
Right, I can't imagine that we'd abandon support for pg_dump custom
format without many versions' warning. AFAIK we still read pg_dump
output from 7.0 if not earlier ...
regards, tom lane