On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 4:46 AM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 2018-11-27 12:20:13 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:13:34PM -0500, David Steele wrote: > > > Non-exclusive backups have been available since 9.6 and several > third-party > > > solutions support this mode, in addition to pg_basebackup. > > > > I think that two releases is not actually that much time to just nuke > > the exclusive backup interface. I would be fine if the docs show the > > deprecation more aggressively using a warning section, and we could add > > an explicit WARNING message about the matter directly when calling > > pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup. > > That was my gut reaction as well, but I think David's argument about > existing scripts / workflows being broken due the the recovery.conf > is a good reason to be more aggressive here. > Yeah, I'm in the same boat here -- it feels like it's a bit too short, but since we're breaking things for people *anyway*, it's probably better to break both at once than to have all those people have their things broken multiple times. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
