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. Greetings, Andres Freund
