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

From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode
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Msg-id 58F2FDBA-30ED-44D9-8485-649E2836444C@thebuild.com
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In response to Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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> On Feb 25, 2019, at 05:14, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> You don't write your own database system using CSV files and shell
> magic, do you?  I have to say that it continues to boggle my mind that
> people insist that *this* part of the system has to be able to be
> implementable using shell scripts.

It's not complicated why: Backup has to interact with a lot more components of the overall environment than a CSV
export,and those components vary *wildly* from one installation to another, and are often over-contrained by local
policy.

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