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Re: Add exclusive backup deprecation notes to documentation

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

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From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Martín Marqués <martin@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2019-03-29T12:49:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 3/29/19 12:46 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:45 AM David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>> Are we planning to back-patch this?  The deprecation was added to the
>> docs in 9.6 -- I think these clarifications would be helpful.
> 
> I wasn't planning too, but I guess we could consider it.  I'd be more
> inclined to back-patch the documentation changes than the message text
> changes, but what do other people think?

I think we should definitely do the docs, I'm 50% on the message.  You 
could argue that is is a behavioral change, but it is pretty important info.

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net

Commits

  1. Warn more strongly about the dangers of exclusive backup mode.