On 27/11/2018 15:45, Stephen Frost wrote: >>> But backup scripts are not affected by the recovery.conf changes. >> In any of my own backup scripts (yeah!), I don't have any dependency to >> that either. Or perhaps pgBackRest has a dependency in this area? > If you don't consider your recovery scripts and your backup scripts to > be related then I've really got to wonder how you're regularly testing > your backups to make sure that they're actually valid.
The sort of installations that continue to use the exclusive backup mode probably have the following tooling: a 20-line shell script to make the backup and either a 10-line shell script or a similarly sized README or wiki page to do the recovery. Changing the latter for the recovery.conf changes is probably a 3-line change. Changing the former for the removal of exclusive backups would require major changes. (Try writing a shell script that keeps a psql session open while it takes the backup from the file system. It's possible, but it requires significantly more logic.) -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
