Re: pg_basebackup, manifests and backends older than ~12

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, david(at)pgmasters(dot)net, sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup, manifests and backends older than ~12
Date: 2020-04-15 00:09:22
Message-ID: 10093.1586909362@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:04:20PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I agree, I think forcing users to specify --no-manifest when run on old
>> servers will cause users to write bad scripts; I vote for silently
>> disabling checksums.

> Okay, thanks. Are there any other opinions?

FWIW, I concur with silently disabling the feature if the source
server can't support it.

regards, tom lane

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