Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2018-12-13T19:17:16Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On 12/13/18 2:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/12/2018 05:09, David Steele wrote:
>> I think the patch stands on its own.  Exclusive backup mode is broken
>> and is know to cause problems in the field.
> 
> Is this breakage documented anywhere for users?

Yes:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/continuous-archiving.html

"Note that if the server crashes during the backup it may not be
possible to restart until the backup_label file has been manually
deleted from the PGDATA directory."

Seems like the wording could be stronger.

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net