Re: Docs for pg_basebackup needs v17 note for incremental backup

Is there seriously not a single person in the past three weeks who has seen this and not had the minute to spare to say "yes, this should be documented"?

David J.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> 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.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgbasebackup.html

David J.

(Please don't top-post, even on yourself)

People get busy. For example, many prominent hackers spent most of the last week at various conferences. There are also other things happening less publicly that are claiming people's time.

FWIW, I think that this should probably be documented.

cheers

andrew

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