On 11/27/18 10:29 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 27/11/2018 16:02, Stephen Frost wrote: >> They're also the sort of installations which don't have reliable backups >> and don't have any clue about the danger they are in due to the current >> bug/issue/whatever we have with exclusive backups. >> >> No, I don't agree that it's sensible to continue to march on as if >> nothing is wrong. > > It's fair to argue that this facility is broken and needs to be removed. > But that needs to be its own argument.
I believe I made this argument in the OP. > The argument in this subthread is that since we're already making > changes in an adjacent area, removing this feature will have a low impact. Fair enough, but I think the argument against exclusive backups stands on its own. Also, I don't see backup and restore as adjacent. I see them as thoroughly intertwined. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net