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

On 03/01/22 14:14, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> There can't really be many teams out there thinking "we'll just ignore
>> these scripts forever, and nothing bad will happen." They all know they'll
>> have to do stuff sometimes. But it matters how we allow them to schedule it.
>
> We only make these changes between major versions. That's as much as we
> should be required to provide.

It's an OSS project, so I guess we're not required to provide anything.

But in the course of this multi-release exclusive to non-exclusive
transition, we already demonstrated, in 7117685, that we can avoid
inflicting immediate breakage when there's nothing in our objective
that inherently requires it, and avoiding it is relatively easy.

I can't bring myself to think that was a bad precedent.

Now, granted, the difference between the adaptations being required then
and the ones required now is that those required both: changes to some
function calls, and corresponding changes to how the scripts handled
label and tablespace files. Here, it's only a clerical update to some
function calls.

So if I'm outvoted here and the reason is "look, a lighter burden is
involved this time than that time", then ok. I would rather bow to that
argument on the specific facts of one case than abandon the precedent
from 7117685 generally.

Regards,
-Chap