Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>

From: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Cc: Adrien NAYRAT <adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2019-02-25T15:30:00Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

> On Feb 25, 2019, at 05:14, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> 
> You don't write your own database system using CSV files and shell
> magic, do you?  I have to say that it continues to boggle my mind that
> people insist that *this* part of the system has to be able to be
> implementable using shell scripts.

It's not complicated why: Backup has to interact with a lot more components of the overall environment than a CSV export, and those components vary *wildly* from one installation to another, and are often over-contrained by local policy.

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