Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2018-11-27T15:29:02Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On 27/11/2018 16:02, Stephen Frost wrote:
> They're also the sort of installations which don't have reliable backups
> and don't have any clue about the danger they are in due to the current
> bug/issue/whatever we have with exclusive backups.
> 
> No, I don't agree that it's sensible to continue to march on as if
> nothing is wrong.

It's fair to argue that this facility is broken and needs to be removed.
 But that needs to be its own argument.

The argument in this subthread is that since we're already making
changes in an adjacent area, removing this feature will have a low impact.

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