Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2018-12-12T04:23:02Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On 12/11/18 9:44 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-12-12 11:32:55 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>
>> +1 on all that.  Per the trend of this thread, I see a bunch of
>> committers and contributors commenting about *not* removing this code,
>> so sending a patch to actually remove it looks like a throw into an
>> abysmal void.
> 
> I don't think it's as clear as you make it out to be:
> 
> In favor:
> - David Steele
> - Andres Freund
> - Stephen Frost, I think
> Against:
> - Simon Riggs
> - Robert Haas
> - Michael Paquier
> - Andreas Karlsson
> - Peter Eisentraut, I think
> 
> While that's clearly lopsided, I still think it's pretty darn absurd to
> call such a situation "a throw into an abysmal void".

I didn't get the impression that Peter was against, he just thought that
it needed to stand on its own, rather than be justified by the
recovery.conf changes, which I agree with.

Simon rather clearly said that he thinks we should wait until the next
release, which I don't see as being entirely against.

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net