Re: pgBackRest maintenance (was Re: Tablespace size in TB)

Josef Šimánek <josef.simanek@gmail.com>

From: Josef Šimánek <josef.simanek@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2026-05-14T17:54:30Z
Lists: pgsql-general
čt 14. 5. 2026 v 19:26 odesílatel Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> napsal:
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> On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 11:45:53PM -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On May 3, 2026, at 22:55, Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ik@dataegret.com>
> > > wrote:  Making a company-branded fork is the easiest (and wrong)
> > > step. Planning how to pick up the pgBackRest project or create a
> > > sustainable, community-driven fork that re-establishes at least the
> > > same reputation requires longer preparation. We all need patience.
> >
> > Dave was quite clear that someone "picking up the pgBackRest project"
> > was not on the table.  I don't think that avenue is open.
> >
> > I would feel more sanguine about the idea that a new
> > community-sported fork will emerge if there were an existence proof
> > of it happening in the PostgreSQL community.  I can't think of one.
>
> That happened with pgbouncer where development stopped and a new team
> picked it up.  I think Peter Eisentraut was involved.  With pgbackrest,
> I think a similar thing would need to happen, but with a new name.

I think David is back and no fork is needed currently.
https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/commit/b93a2b8807adabec02ef33cca838e30f109c3eba

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