Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes: > In the end, the experiences I've had with pg_dump of late and trying to > ensure that pg_dump 9.6 is able to work all the way back to *7.0*, makes > me think that this notion of putting the one-and-only real test-suite we > have into the core repo almost laughable.
um... why are you trying to do that? We moved the goalposts last fall:
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Branch: master [64f3524e2] 2016-10-12 12:20:02 -0400
Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers.
Right... for v10. Last I checked we still wish for pg_dump 9.6 to work against 7.0, as I mention in the portion you quote above. I agree that we don't need to ensure that v10 pg_dump works against 7.0, which is helpful, certainly, but there's still a lot left on the floor in the back branches as it relates to code coverage and the buildfarm.