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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Docs for pg_basebackup needs v17 note for incremental backup
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 10:22:34 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKFQuwZYfZyeTkS3g2Ovw84TsxHa796xnf-u5kfgn_auyxZk0Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 2025-Jan-13, David G. Johnston wrote:

> Hackers,
> 
> Should the following paragraph in the docs be modified to point out minimum
> server version of v17 for incremental backups?
>
> pg_basebackup works with servers of the same or an older major version,
> down to 9.1. However, WAL streaming mode (-X stream) only works with server
> version 9.3 and later, and tar format (--format=tar) only works with server
> version 9.5 and later.

Yes, absolutely.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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