Hi, On 2019-02-25 08:14:16 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > It will be annoying if after this removal, companies must change their > > backup strategy by using specific postgres tools (pgbackrest, barman). > > You don't write your own database system using CSV files and shell > magic, do you? I have to say that it continues to boggle my mind that > people insist that *this* part of the system has to be able to be > implementable using shell scripts. > > Folks, these are your backups we're talking about, your last resort if > everything else goes up in flames, why do you want to risk that by > implementing your own one-off solution, particularly when there's known > serious issues using that interface, and you want to just use shell > scripts to do it...?
FWIW, if you weren't selling backrest quite so hard everywhere backups are mentioned, I'd find this thread a lot more convicing. Greetings, Andres Freund
