Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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

Date: 2020-06-30T23:26:18Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 07:10:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> De-deprecating the exclusive backup mode and returning that info at the
> start and telling users "put this anywhere EXCEPT this specific place,
> and make sure you DO put these files in that exact place when you
> restore" would perhaps be closer to what folks who really, really, want
> to do snapshot-based backups would want... if that ends up being a net

Agreed.

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