Re: 9.5 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 9.5 release notes
Date
Msg-id 20150614005626.GA3926@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 9.5 release notes  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 08:25:55AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@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 <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?
> >
> 
> If it has never lead to usable backup's for cross version backup, then I think
> there is no pressing need to mention it.

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