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

From David Steele
Subject Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode
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Msg-id 4414f484-93ec-fc61-0dee-349f70675ed6@pgmasters.net
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In response to Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 12/13/18 2:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/12/2018 05:09, David Steele wrote:
>> I think the patch stands on its own.  Exclusive backup mode is broken
>> and is know to cause problems in the field.
> 
> Is this breakage documented anywhere for users?

Yes:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/continuous-archiving.html

"Note that if the server crashes during the backup it may not be
possible to restart until the backup_label file has been manually
deleted from the PGDATA directory."

Seems like the wording could be stronger.

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net


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