On 12/13/18 2:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 12/12/2018 05:09, David Steele wrote: >> I think the patch stands on its own. Exclusive backup mode is broken >> and is know to cause problems in the field. > > Is this breakage documented anywhere for users?
Yes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/continuous-archiving.html "Note that if the server crashes during the backup it may not be possible to restart until the backup_label file has been manually deleted from the PGDATA directory." Seems like the wording could be stronger. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net
