On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 15:29 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/app-pgbasebackup.html > Description: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication.html > Logical replication has excellent paragraph about usecases. > > These pages does not have them. > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgbasebackup.html > > My main issue is that `pg_basebackup` page does not mention that this backup > is compatible only with current version of database. I can not do basebackup > on v11 and restore that on v15, for example.
I think that that is amply documented by the fact that pg_basebackup is *not* mentioned in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/upgrading.html . You can't expect us to enumerate every tool that is not suitable for upgrading. Yours, Laurenz Albe
