| From: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Adrien NAYRAT <adrien(dot)nayrat(at)anayrat(dot)info>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode |
| Date: | 2019-02-25 15:30:00 |
| Message-ID: | 58F2FDBA-30ED-44D9-8485-649E2836444C@thebuild.com |
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> On Feb 25, 2019, at 05:14, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)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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