Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2018-11-27T16:21:20Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

Hi,

On 2018-11-26 23:04:35 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's not like the problems with exclusive backup are so serious that
> you can't work around them.  If you know which machine is your master,
> you can arrange to remove backup_label on reboot (only) on the master
> (only). Sure, a lot of people probably do this wrong, but it's
> infeasible to disallow all the things that people might use
> incorrectly without making the system useless.

That doesn't protect against postgres, not machine, [crash-]restarts
though.

Greetings,

Andres Freund