Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

On 2/25/19 11:20 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote:
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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?
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>> 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.
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> 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.

This is true but is becoming far less true over time. Automation of
recovery is now very common -- as it should be. Backups should be
tested regularly and recovery should not be a scary thing that is done
at 2am from an outdated runbook.

The recovery.conf change will have serious impact when it arrives in PG12.

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-David
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