On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> >> I am assuming that's a "yes" to both the directions: older -> newer , and >> >> newer -> older minor releases. >> > >> > Yes, I believe both directions would work unless we mentioned it the >> > release notes, in which cases it might not work, or might work older to >> > newer but newer to older. >> >> I don't see how this would get broken in a minor release. We'd have >> to change the WAL format or the tuple format, which is definitely not >> minor release material. > > If there was a bug in the xlog stream content we might not be able to > fix it without breaking compatibility. Rare, but possible.
OK, fair enough. But I think the likelihood is extremely low. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
