Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2018-11-27T13:56:37Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 03:13, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:


> The deprecated exclusive mode promises to make a difficult problem
> simple but doesn't live up to that promise. That's why it was replaced
> externally in 9.6 and why pg_basebackup has not used exclusive backups
> since it was introduced in 9.2.
>
> Non-exclusive backups have been available since 9.6 and several
> third-party solutions support this mode, in addition to pg_basebackup.
>
> The recently introduced recovery changes will break current automated
> solutions so this seems like a good opportunity to make improvements on
> the backup side as well.
>
> I'll submit a patch for the 2019-01 commitfest.
>

-1 for removal, in this release

It's not there because anyone likes it, it's there because removing it is a
risk

Recent changes are the reason to keep it, not a reason to remove.

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