On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 02:12:19PM -0800, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM wrote: > While an exclusive backup is in progress if Postgres restarts, postgres > runs the recovery from the checkpoint identified by the label file instead > of the control file. This can cause long recovery or even sometimes fail to > recover as the WAL records corresponding to that checkpoint location are > removed. I can write a layer in my control plane to remove the backup_label > file when I know the server is not in restore from the base backup but I > don't see a reason why everyone has to repeat this step. Am I missing > something?
This is a known issue with exclusive backups, which is a reason why non-exclusive backups have been implemented. pg_basebackup does that, and using "false" as the third argument of pg_start_backup() would have the same effect. So I would recommend to switch to that. -- Michael
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