Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2020-07-01T20:36:03Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:29 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Agreed.  I don't think three modes would help anyone.

Well, I think that if and when we remove the existing exclusive mode,
we're going to break a bunch of people's backup scripts. I think it's
appropriate to do that eventually, but I'm not in a big rush. Long
deprecation periods are a feature, not a bug.

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Robert Haas
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