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?