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?
> Attaching the thread [1] that I started with a patch to remove exclusive
> backup for reference.
Ah, good, some light reading. :)
Nathan
