Re: CREATE USER

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Well, I know we support the new pg_dump dumping back to 7.1, but I don't
>> know what our policy is for accepting old dumps.
>
> We're still going to very large lengths to load pre-7.3 dumps; see
> for instance ConvertTriggerToFK() in trigger.c.  I'm not aware of any
> policy that would suggest blowing off pre-8.1 dumps should be
> acceptable.  Yeah, it's true that the *recommended* procedure is to
> use the newer pg_dump, but people aren't always in a position to do
> that.
>
> I think it might be sane to emit a WARNING suggesting that CREATEUSER
> might not mean what you think, but failing is probably not good.
>

are we going to do this in this release?
i never was able to think in a good phrasing for this, though

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