On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 17:38 -0400, David Steele wrote: > Rebased patch is attached.
I remain -1 on removing the exclusive backup API. People who don't mind manual intervention when PostgreSQL doesn't start after a crash in backup mode could safely use it. We have been over this, and there is not much point in re-opening the discussion. I just had to speak up. > Lastly, there is some concern about getting the backup label too late > when doing snapshots or using traditional backup software. It would > certainly be possible to return the backup_label and tablespace_map from > pg_start_backup() and let the user make the choice about what to do with > them. Any of these methods will require some scripting so I don't see > why the files couldn't be written as, for example, backup_label.snap and > tablespace_map.snap and then renamed by the restore script. The patch > does not currently make this change, but it could be added pretty easily > if that overcomes this objection. That would be interesting improvements that would make the non-exclusive backup API easier to use. Yours, Laurenz Albe
