Greetings, * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 04:46:59PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 08:47 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > I remain -1 on removing the exclusive backup API. > > > > > > It's still deprecated and I'm certainly against removing that status > > > until/unless someone actually fixes it (including documentation), and if > > > we're not going to do that then we should remove it. > > > > Well, it doesn't need fixing, since it is working just fine (for certain > > values of "just fine"). > > > > I agree with the need to document the problems better. > > Agreed, and I don't support the repeated attempts to force things. For > me, the exclusive mode got marked as deprecated because it is "not > optimal", but that doesn't mean it is useless or needs to be removed.
I don't consider something that, in entirely normal operation, causes the server to not restart from a crash to be just "not optimal". You could argue that doing a non-atomic snapshot of PG as a backup as "not optimal" too, and certainly there's no shortage of folks who do and it even works in a lot of cases, but there's no doubt it'll end up breaking at some point. Thanks, Stephen
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