On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 09:02:35PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > > > On 06/10/2015 09:50 PM, Amit Kapila wrote: > > > Also shall we mention about below in Migrations to 9.5 section > > > > > > "pg_basebackup will not not work in tar mode against 9.4 and older > > servers, > > > as we have introduced a new protocol option in that mode." > > > > AFAIK, pg_basebackup has never worked across versions. So there's no > > reason for this note. > > > > > > It has. The resulting backup has not been usable cross version, but > > pg_basebackup itself has. Though not always, and I'm not sure we've ever > > claimed it was supported, but it has worked. > > So we should still mention it in the release notes? >
If it has never lead to usable backup's for cross version backup, then I think there is no pressing need to mention it. With Regards, Amit Kapila. EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com