For those that run Element server and run postgresql version older than 13 will need to update their postgresql major version.
I found these instructions by ‘maxkratz’ on their github page which worked perfectly for me to go from 11 to 16.
Hopefully this helps someone!
I think there is a catch-22.
pg_dump needs to connect to a running PostgreSQL instance.
But if you upgrade the binaries and try to start up, you can’t because the old data format doesn’t work. Because you can’t start up, pg_dump can’t connect.
Yeah they would need to make it backwards compatible.