Greetings,
* Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@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