Re: 9.5 release notes

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.5 release notes
Date: 2015-06-11 19:02:35
Message-ID: CABUevEyOhiuPoFv+A2PRP+35WcAsSz4Et9ddL3GyXK9CjozuvA@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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