Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:41:26PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > > And no it is at least not well documented. But there are other
> parts
> > which
> > > aren't as well - such as the requirement to actually run
> pg_stop_backup()
> > even
> > > in the case you want to abort a backup, or your next one will fail.
> > Basically
> > > the old method is quite fragile and no, we haven't documented that
> > properly
> > > previously.
> >
> > Well, if the API was in wide use and will be supported for several
> more
> > years, we had better document it, no?
> >
> >
> > Absolutely. That was part of that "bigger backup docs rewrite" that
> hasn't
> > happened yet, but hopefully will before the final release.
>
> Well, I don't even know the details of the failures, so I can't add that
> information. Let's get it in there somewhere and I can move it around
> later.

FYI, I'm not ignoring this request, I've just been insanely busy lately. I
definitely plan to get it done, but I won't make it before beta (as should
be obvious by now, given the timing). My apologies.

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