On 5/12/21 3:21 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2021-May-12, David Steele wrote:pgBackRest uses PG_CONTROL_VERSION to identify the version of PostgreSQL when it is not running. If PG_CONTROL_VERSION does not change from a prior version then we also use CATALOG_VERSION_NO to uniquely identify the version.Why don't you use the PG_VERSION file in the datadir?
Mostly because there is other data we need in pg_control and it is simpler to read one file than two.
Regards, -- -David da...@pgmasters.net
