On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.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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