Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file

On 12/1/21 19:30, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
> On 12/1/21, 10:37 AM, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
>> On 12/1/21, 8:27 AM, "David Steele" <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>>> On 11/30/21 18:31, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
>>>> Do you think it's still worth trying to make it safe, or do you think
>>>> we should just remove exclusive mode completely?
>>> My preference would be to remove it completely, but I haven't gotten a
>>> lot of traction so far.
>> In this thread, I count 6 people who seem alright with removing it,
>> and 2 who might be opposed, although I don't think anyone has
>> explicitly stated they are against it.
> I hastily rebased the patch from 2018 and got it building and passing
> the tests.  I'm sure it will need additional changes, but I'll wait
> for more feedback before I expend too much more effort on this.
>


Should we really be getting rid of
PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::backup_fs_hot() ?


cheers


andrew

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