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From: David Steele <[email protected]>
To: Bossart, Nathan <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:27:42 -0500
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On 11/30/21 18:31, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
> On 11/30/21, 2:58 PM, "David Steele" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I did figure out how to keep the safe part of exclusive backup (not
>> having to maintain a connection) while removing the dangerous part
>> (writing backup_label into PGDATA), but it was a substantial amount of
>> work and I felt that it had little chance of being committed.
> 
> Do you think it's still worth trying to make it safe, or do you think
> we should just remove exclusive mode completely?

My preference would be to remove it completely, but I haven't gotten a 
lot of traction so far.

>> Attaching the thread [1] that I started with a patch to remove exclusive
>> backup for reference.
> 
> Ah, good, some light reading.  :)

Sure, if you say so!

Regards,
-David

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