Re: 9.5 release notes

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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(at)agliodbs(dot)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.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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