| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode |
| Date: | 2019-01-05 18:19:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20190105181920.GN2528@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Greetings,
* Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 12/12/2018 05:31, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Most of the features I've been involved in removing have been
> > deprecated for 5+ years. The first release where this one was
> > deprecated was only 2 years ago. So it feels dramatically faster to
> > me than what I think we have typically done.
>
> I was just looking this up as well, and I find it too fast. The
> nonexclusive backups were introduced in 9.6. So I'd say that we could
> remove the exclusive ones when 9.5 goes EOL. (That would mean this
> patch could be submitted for PostgreSQL 13, since 9.5 will go out of
> support around the time PG13 would be released.)
I don't agree with either the notion that we have to wait 5 years in
this case or that we've only had a good alternative to the exclusive
backup mode since 9.5 as we've had pg_basebackup since 9.1.
Thanks,
Stephen
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