Re: pg_dump weirdness

I’ll capture the warnings on Monday and share them here, but I honestly saw nothing that should have broken the load.
Plus,no one has mentioned why the restore took over 1/2 hour but nothing was loaded. 

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> On Nov 5, 2021, at 20:47, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> "MichaelDBA@sqlexec.com" <michaeldba@sqlexec.com> writes:
>> You cannot use a newer version of pgdump to export and then insert it into an older version of PostgreSQL if I am
understandingyou correctly. 
>
> Well, you can try.  You might get errors from DDL syntax the older server
> doesn't understand, but usually that won't happen if the dump is taken
> from a server of that vintage or older.  We don't promise anything, but
> I'd expect it to usually work.
>
> I'm a little suspicious of the OP's claim that there were only warnings
> and not errors while trying to restore the dump -- an error would go a
> long way towards explaining the report.  In any case, we'd need to see
> all those warnings to have much chance of diagnosing this.
>
>            regards, tom lane