On 11/30/21 18:31, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
> On 11/30/21, 2:58 PM, "David Steele" <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>> I did figure out how to keep the safe part of exclusive backup (not
>> having to maintain a connection) while removing the dangerous part
>> (writing backup_label into PGDATA), but it was a substantial amount of
>> work and I felt that it had little chance of being committed.
>
> Do you think it's still worth trying to make it safe, or do you think
> we should just remove exclusive mode completely?
My preference would be to remove it completely, but I haven't gotten a
lot of traction so far.
>> Attaching the thread [1] that I started with a patch to remove exclusive
>> backup for reference.
>
> Ah, good, some light reading. :)
Sure, if you say so!
Regards,
-David