On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 12:32 AM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Does this mean that "--compress=server-zst" is only relevant with --format=tar? > Assuming this isn’t an actual regression in behavior in a patch-released > older version > My apologies for not mentioning the version: 14.12-1PGDG-rhel8. > I don’t see us adding an error message at this point. > Me neither. It just seemed odd.
