Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

* Josh berkus (josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com) wrote:
> On 04/27/2016 01:50 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
> >> On 04/27/2016 09:40 AM, Josh berkus wrote:
> >>
> >>> If it weren't for length, I'd be all for having a list of projects which
> >>> are having a release to get ready for 9.6; we've done that several times
> >>> before, and that's useful for testing too. "pgAdmin has been adjusted
> >>> to support X in the new release, please test". I don't know that we
> >>> have anything like that, though, do we?
> >>
> >> The only thing would be PgLogical but I don't think it warrants exclusivity.
> >
> > Not entirely sure I'm following along correctly, but if we're talking
> > about tools being updated for 9.6, it seems likley that all of the
> > backup tools which use pg_start/stop_backup will be updated for the new
> > API.
>
> Damn, which means I need to test mine too. Where are these changes
> documented?

The changes are to pg_start/stop_backup and their updated definitions
can be reviewed here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-admin.html

Note that it's technically backwards compatible, however, the existing
exclusive backup approach is bad and may mean that the database doesn't
automatically recover from a crash which happens while the backup is
running. All backup tools should be updated to the new APIs to avoid
that risk.

Thanks!

Stephen