On 12/13/18 2:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/12/2018 05:09, David Steele wrote:
>> I think the patch stands on its own. Exclusive backup mode is broken
>> and is know to cause problems in the field.
>
> Is this breakage documented anywhere for users?
Yes:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/continuous-archiving.html
"Note that if the server crashes during the backup it may not be
possible to restart until the backup_label file has been manually
deleted from the PGDATA directory."
Seems like the wording could be stronger.
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-David
david@pgmasters.net