On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:23 PM David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> wrote: > I didn't get the impression that Peter was against, he just thought that > it needed to stand on its own, rather than be justified by the > recovery.conf changes, which I agree with. > > Simon rather clearly said that he thinks we should wait until the next > release, which I don't see as being entirely against.
Well, nobody is saying that we should NEVER remove this. The discussion is about what to do in v12. Most of the features I've been involved in removing have been deprecated for 5+ years. The first release where this one was deprecated was only 2 years ago. So it feels dramatically faster to me than what I think we have typically done. Actually, I hadn't realized until this discussion that the exclusive backup interface was actually deprecated -- I thought we were just recommending the new non-exclusive backup interface should be used. If we're in a rush to remove this (and apparently many of us are), I think we should make that warning a lot more prominent, maybe copy it into a few more places, and back-patch the changes. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
