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From: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: 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 11:39:55 -0500
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Greetings,

* Nathan Bossart ([email protected]) wrote:
> 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.

+1.

Thanks,

Stephen


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