On 10/17/23 14:28, Robert Haas wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 5:21 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
But no, by default, and probably so far as pg_basebackup is concerned, a server
crash during backup results in requiring outside intervention in order to get
the server to restart.
Others may differ, but I think such a proposal is dead on arrival. As
Laurenz says, that's just reinventing one of the main problems with
exclusive backup mode.
I concur -- this proposal resurrects the issues we had with exclusive
backups without solving the issues being debated elsewhere, e.g. torn
reads of pg_control or users removing backup_label when they should not.
Regards,
-David
