On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 09:02:35PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@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?
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