Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:05:36AM +0900, Robert Haas wrote:
> I wish to point out that there currently seem to be more votes against
> this proposal than for it, and that nobody should commit a patch
> unless there is a consensus that it should be committed, whether or
> not the committer personally agrees with the arguments against it.
>
> As for my vote, I do not buy the idea that because we're changing some
> stuff about recovery.conf we should go ahead and do this too. Yes,
> they are related, but just because you adjust your backup/restore
> script/tool to cope with one change doesn't mean that you don't have
> to adjust it some more to cope with the other change.
>
> I also think that the idea that supporting the exclusive backup
> interface is hurting anything is greatly exaggerated. Whether we keep
> it or not, we're not forcing anyone to use it.

+1 on all that. Per the trend of this thread, I see a bunch of
committers and contributors commenting about *not* removing this code,
so sending a patch to actually remove it looks like a throw into an
abysmal void.
--
Michael