Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode
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Msg-id 20181127162120.nnhuvqkkvfiq4xvj@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 2018-11-26 23:04:35 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's not like the problems with exclusive backup are so serious that
> you can't work around them.  If you know which machine is your master,
> you can arrange to remove backup_label on reboot (only) on the master
> (only). Sure, a lot of people probably do this wrong, but it's
> infeasible to disallow all the things that people might use
> incorrectly without making the system useless.

That doesn't protect against postgres, not machine, [crash-]restarts
though.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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