On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 18:09, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > If you're planninng to install (the same version of) FreeBSD on > the original server hardware, then rsync'ing back from the new > system should be fine. But Debian<->FreeBSD is gonna be trouble > in either direction. >
But I'm specifically NOT talking about doing an rsync to get the data back.. the plan is to use in-protocol replication. Maybe that's a distinction without a difference, but that's why I brought it up. The replication documentation, and more specifically the pg_basebackup documentation, makes no mention of cross-OS replication as being a problem for any reason. If that is expected to be a problem, then perhaps that should be updated?
