On 11/27/18 10:05 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > On 11/27/18 3:46 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: >> I'm concerned, seriously, that people don't have anywhere near the >> concern about the recovery side of things as they do about the backup >> side of things and that's really concerning. > > I think we should use more caution when data loss is at stake rather > than "just" downtime. So personally I am in favor of updating the manual > with warnings (right now it does not even say if exclusive or > non-exclusive is the default) and adding a deprecation warning when > people use the exclusive mode.
The documentation says (since 9.6): Low level base backups can be made in a non-exclusive or an exclusive way. The non-exclusive method is recommended and the exclusive one is deprecated and will eventually be removed. That seems clear enough to me. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net
