Hi,
On 2018-11-26 23:04:35 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's not like the problems with exclusive backup are so serious that
> you can't work around them. If you know which machine is your master,
> you can arrange to remove backup_label on reboot (only) on the master
> (only). Sure, a lot of people probably do this wrong, but it's
> infeasible to disallow all the things that people might use
> incorrectly without making the system useless.
That doesn't protect against postgres, not machine, [crash-]restarts
though.
Greetings,
Andres Freund