On Thursday, June 6, 2024, Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zees...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 6:54 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/app-pgbasebackup.html doesn't mention >> "--compress=[{client|server}-]method". That first appears in the v15 >> docs. >> >> And yet pg_basebackup doesn't complain about an invalid option. >> (Technically, this is a bug; I first noticed it a week after copying a >> script from a PG 15 server to five PG 14 servers, and running it quite a >> few times without fail.) >> > Seems a bit suspect, but as your script doesn’t mention tar the option itself is apparently ignored, I guess silently. Assuming this isn’t an actual regression in behavior in a patch-released older version I don’t see us adding an error message at this point. > If the support is removed then it should be mentioned in the official > documentation. > Support wasn’t removed. Re-read the email and check the version/times being mentioned again. David J.
