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Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file

SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>

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From: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-26T02:19:03Z
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Thanks Michael!

This is a known issue with exclusive backups, which is a reason why
> non-exclusive backups have been implemented.  pg_basebackup does that,
> and using "false" as the third argument of pg_start_backup() would
> have the same effect.  So I would recommend to switch to that.
>

Is there a plan in place to remove the exclusive backup option from the
core in PG 15/16? If we are keeping it then why not make it better?

Commits

  1. Remove duplicated word in comment of basebackup.c