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 20190225211553.qj6om7prjgzybiaq@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode  (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
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Hi,

On 2019-02-25 20:43:01 +0200, David Steele wrote:
> fsync() is the major corruption issue we are facing right now but that
> doesn't mean there aren't other sources of corruption we should be thinking
> about.  I've thought about this one a lot and it scares me.

FWIW, I think this kind of issue practially bites a *LOT* more people
than the fsync() issue.


> I've worked on ways to make it better, but all of them break something and
> involve compromises that are nearly as severe as removing exclusive backups
> entirely.

There've been plenty proposals to make non-exclusive backups less
painful in this thread, so ...?

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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