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.
