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

Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>

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From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-12-02T00:30:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 12/1/21, 10:37 AM, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/21, 8:27 AM, "David Steele" <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>> On 11/30/21 18:31, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
>>> Do you think it's still worth trying to make it safe, or do you think
>>> we should just remove exclusive mode completely?
>>
>> My preference would be to remove it completely, but I haven't gotten a
>> lot of traction so far.
>
> In this thread, I count 6 people who seem alright with removing it,
> and 2 who might be opposed, although I don't think anyone has
> explicitly stated they are against it.

I hastily rebased the patch from 2018 and got it building and passing
the tests.  I'm sure it will need additional changes, but I'll wait
for more feedback before I expend too much more effort on this.

Nathan

Commits

  1. Remove duplicated word in comment of basebackup.c