Greetings, * Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > On 12/12/2018 05:31, Robert Haas wrote: > > 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. > > I was just looking this up as well, and I find it too fast. The > nonexclusive backups were introduced in 9.6. So I'd say that we could > remove the exclusive ones when 9.5 goes EOL. (That would mean this > patch could be submitted for PostgreSQL 13, since 9.5 will go out of > support around the time PG13 would be released.)
I don't agree with either the notion that we have to wait 5 years in this case or that we've only had a good alternative to the exclusive backup mode since 9.5 as we've had pg_basebackup since 9.1. Thanks, Stephen
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