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postgres tools should match server version #1

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pg_restore and pg_dump can cause issues when there is a version mismatch between server and client.

Update the image to include all versions of the client tools from 11-17 and use something like psql -c "SELECT version()" (should be safe to use the latest client) and then use the matching tooling for the version provided for all other commands.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/app-pgdump.html

Because pg_dump is used to transfer data to newer versions of PostgreSQL, the output of pg_dump can be expected to load into PostgreSQL server versions newer than pg_dump's version. pg_dump can also dump from PostgreSQL servers older than its own version. (Currently, servers back to version 9.2 are supported.) However, pg_dump cannot dump from PostgreSQL servers newer than its own major version; it will refuse to even try, rather than risk making an invalid dump. Also, it is not guaranteed that pg_dump's output can be loaded into a server of an older major version — not even if the dump was taken from a server of that version. Loading a dump file into an older server may require manual editing of the dump file to remove syntax not understood by the older server. Use of the --quote-all-identifiers option is recommended in cross-version cases, as it can prevent problems arising from varying reserved-word lists in different PostgreSQL versions.

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