On 9/17/19 10:03 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> That said- it brings up a pretty serious issue that should be discussed,
> and that's nuking this:
>
> HINT: If you are not restoring from a backup, try removing the file ".../backup_label".
>
> That hint is absolutely wrong these days when many tools have been
> updated to use the non-exclusive backup method and it just ends up
> getting people into trouble and, worse, can result in them having
> corrupted clusters.
>
> I'll get a patch into the next commitfest to remove it. The exclusive
> method has been deprecated for quite a few releases and we should stop
> giving bad advice on the assumption that people are using it.
We updated the error message and hints in c900c152, but it was not
back-patched.
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-David
david@pgmasters.net
