Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers

On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 12:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The reason that I pushed back -- not as successfully as I would have
> > liked -- on the changes to pg_stop_backup / pg_start_backup is that I
> > know there are people using the old method successfully, and it's not
> > just a 1:1 substitution. Here I don't, and it is. I'm totally open to
> > the feedback that such people exist and to hearing why adopting one of
> > the newer methods would be a problem for them, if that's the case. But
> > if there's no evidence that such people exist or that changing is a
> > problem for them, I don't think waiting 5 years on principle is good
> > for the project.
>
> We make incompatible changes in every release; see the release notes.
> Unless somebody can give a plausible use-case where this'd be a
> difficult change to deal with, I concur that we don't need to
> deprecate it ahead of time.

Since I am the only one that seems to worry, I'll shut up. You are probably
right that it the feature won't be missed by many users.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe