BUG #13998: Misleading error from pg_basebackup

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From: alexey(dot)kuntsevich(at)gmail(dot)com
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: BUG #13998: Misleading error from pg_basebackup
Date: 2016-03-03 08:24:27
Message-ID: 20160303082427.3799.60484@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 13998
Logged by: Alexey Kuntsevich
Email address: alexey(dot)kuntsevich(at)gmail(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 9.5.1
Operating system: Debian Jessie 8.2 x64
Description:

Hi!
Small thing really. Pg_basebackup is incompatible across versions in tar
mode, according to the documentation, but the error it returned when I tried
to make target it on to 9.3 was not something like "Trying to make a tar
backup with incompatible version", but 'pg_basebackup: could not initiate
base backup: ERROR: syntax error: unexpected character "T"'. Can the error
message be updated or some version checking be implemented for this specific
case?

Thank you!