Re: Documentation does not mention that basebackup could not be used on newer major version - Mailing list pgsql-docs

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