| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | konkove(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Documentation does not mention that basebackup could not be used on newer major version |
| Date: | 2023-09-18 20:08:30 |
| Message-ID: | bd50647047caab850dbafe565ef1b1ef8d1027f0.camel@cybertec.at |
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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
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