Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file

From: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file
Date: 2021-11-26 02:19:03
Message-ID: CAHg+QDekOasWArvmPeOqhyTUHR40DsDOWyt7OaKxpQ7eFYqysw@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks Michael!

This is a known issue with exclusive backups, which is a reason why
> non-exclusive backups have been implemented. pg_basebackup does that,
> and using "false" as the third argument of pg_start_backup() would
> have the same effect. So I would recommend to switch to that.
>

Is there a plan in place to remove the exclusive backup option from the
core in PG 15/16? If we are keeping it then why not make it better?

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