On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:
> I'd be happy to help getting this in, do you have a suggested wording?
>
>
Thank you.
Attached.
David J.
From fc9768fa1de17529cddc3f3ac1fba208f7500083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:58:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Document pg_basebackup incremental backup requires v17
server.
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
index c2d721208b..9659f76042 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
@@ -1005,10 +1005,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<para>
<application>pg_basebackup</application> works with servers of the same
- or an older major version, down to 9.1. However, WAL streaming mode (<literal>-X
- stream</literal>) only works with server version 9.3 and later, and tar format
+ or older major version, down to 9.1. However, WAL streaming mode (<literal>-X
+ stream</literal>) only works with server version 9.3 and later, the tar format
(<literal>--format=tar</literal>) only works with server version 9.5
- and later.
+ and later, and incremental backup (<literal>--incremental</literal>) only works
+ with server version 17 and later.
</para>
<para>
--
2.34.1
