Re: Postgres restart in the middle of exclusive backup and the presence of backup_label file

On 11/30/21, 9:51 AM, "Stephen Frost"  wrote:
> I disagree that that’s a satisfactory approach. It certainly wasn’t
> intended or documented as part of the original feature and therefore
> to call it satisfactory strikes me quite strongly as revisionist
> history. 

It looks like the exclusive way has been marked deprecated in all
supported versions along with a note that it will eventually be
removed.  If it's not going to be removed out of fear of breaking
backward compatibility, I think the documentation should be updated to
say that.  However, unless there is something that is preventing users
from switching to the non-exclusive approach, I think it is reasonable
to begin thinking about removing it.

Nathan