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To: David Steele <[email protected]>
Cc: Chapman Flack <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 07:10:49 -0800
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 08:44:51AM -0600, David Steele wrote:
> Personally, I am in favor of removing it. We change/rename
> functions/tables/views when we need to, and this happens in almost every
> release.
>
> What we need to do is make sure that an older installation won't silently
> work in a broken way, i.e. if we remove the exclusive flag somebody
> expecting the pre-9.6 behavior might not receive an error and think
> everything is OK. That would not be good.
>
> One option might be to rename the functions. Something like
> pg_backup_start/stop.
I'm fine with this approach.
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Nathan Bossart
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