Re: use pg_get_functiondef() in pg_dump

On 2020-08-12 21:54, Robert Haas wrote:
> One problem with this, which I think Tom pointed out before, is that
> it might make it to handle some forward-compatibility problems. In
> other words, if something that the server is generating needs to be
> modified for compatibility with a future release, it's not easy to do
> that. Like if we needed to quote something we weren't previously
> quoting, for example.

We already use a lot of other pg_get_*def functions in pg_dump.  Does 
this one introduce any fundamentally new problems?

A hypothetical change where syntax that we accept now would no longer be 
accepted in a (near-)future version would create a lot of upsetness.  I 
don't think we'd do it.

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