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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Jatinder Singh Sandhu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: physical replication compatibilty
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:16:20 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 3:06 PM Jatinder Singh Sandhu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Is physical streaming replication backward compatible between these two
> major versions?
>

pg_upgrade can perform this kind of physical transfer upgrade.

Physical replication is only reliable when the source and target are
basically identical in platform and software.  It cannot be expected to
work between major versions.

David J.


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