On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 12:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > The reason that I pushed back -- not as successfully as I would have > > liked -- on the changes to pg_stop_backup / pg_start_backup is that I > > know there are people using the old method successfully, and it's not > > just a 1:1 substitution. Here I don't, and it is. I'm totally open to > > the feedback that such people exist and to hearing why adopting one of > > the newer methods would be a problem for them, if that's the case. But > > if there's no evidence that such people exist or that changing is a > > problem for them, I don't think waiting 5 years on principle is good > > for the project. > > We make incompatible changes in every release; see the release notes. > Unless somebody can give a plausible use-case where this'd be a > difficult change to deal with, I concur that we don't need to > deprecate it ahead of time.
Since I am the only one that seems to worry, I'll shut up. You are probably right that it the feature won't be missed by many users. Yours, Laurenz Albe
