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commit    5a4ea8e2004db269497ef18048ed5238c2c6e5cb
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Thu Jun 11 14:51:18 2015 +0000

    release notes:  update for pg_basebackup in tar format
    
    Report by Amit Kapila


 doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
index 2073f74fa5c..f022050d34a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml
@@ -1322,8 +1322,15 @@
 
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       Have <application>pg_basebackup</> use a tablespace mapping file,
-       to allow for file paths of 100+ characters in length (Amit Kapila)
+       Have <application>pg_basebackup</> use a tablespace mapping
+       file with the <application>tar</> format, to handle file paths
+       of 100+ characters in length and sybolic links on <systemitem
+       class="osname">MS Windows</> (Amit Kapila)
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+       This change prevents <application>pg_basebackup</> from backing
+       up pre-9.5 servers.
       </para>
      </listitem>
 


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