Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file
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Msg-id 20220301163955.GU10577@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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Greetings,

* Nathan Bossart (nathandbossart@gmail.com) 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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