Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2020-07-01T14:46:59Z

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Remove exclusive backup mode
- 39969e2a1e4d 15.0 landed

On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 08:47 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > I remain -1 on removing the exclusive backup API.
> 
> It's still deprecated and I'm certainly against removing that status
> until/unless someone actually fixes it (including documentation), and if
> we're not going to do that then we should remove it.

Well, it doesn't need fixing, since it is working just fine (for certain
values of "just fine").

I agree with the need to document the problems better.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe