On Mon, 2023-10-16 at 12:12 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:06 PM Michael Banck <mba...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Not sure what to do about this, but as people/companies start moving to > > 15, I am afraid we will get people complaining about this. I think > > having exclusive mode still be the default for pg_start_backup() (albeit > > deprecated) in one release and then dropping it in the next was too > > fast. > > I completely agree, and I said so at the time, but got shouted down. I > think the argument that exclusive backups were breaking anything at > all was very weak. Nobody was being forced to use them, and they broke > nothing for people who didn't.
+1 Yours, Laurenz Albe
