| From: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode |
| Date: | 2019-02-25 21:20:21 |
| Message-ID: | 8F3C9A0C-24A5-4934-B8FD-8C69495A7419@thebuild.com |
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> On Feb 25, 2019, at 11:24, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Aren't they going to need to make a change for v12 now anyway?
>
> Hopefully they're regularly testing their backups by doing a restore of
> them, and dropping a recovery.conf into the directory of a v12 system
> after restore will do exactly nothing and they'll get errors complaining
> about how they need to provide a restore_command.
It varies with the installation, but backups are 100% - epsilon automated, while restores are very frequently done via runbook. Changing a runbook is institutionally less contentious, and the change is more or less "drop the file into mumble/conf.d rather than mumble", which is less of a break.
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