Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 5:38 PM David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> wrote:

> On 12/12/18 4:44 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2018-12-12 11:32:55 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >>
> >> +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.
> >
> > I don't think it's as clear as you make it out to be:
> >
> > In favor:
> > - David Steele
> > - Andres Freund
> > - Stephen Frost, I think
> > Against:
> > - Simon Riggs
> > - Robert Haas
> > - Michael Paquier
> > - Andreas Karlsson
> > - Peter Eisentraut, I think
> >
> > While that's clearly lopsided, I still think it's pretty darn absurd to
> > call such a situation "a throw into an abysmal void".
>
> The way I read the discussion, there is no consensus for getting this
> into PG12, but there does seem to be one for PG13.
>
> I'll push this to the first post-PG12 CF when one appears. Can we just
> go ahead and create a 2019-07 CF now? I know we generally discuss this
> at PGCon, but we can always rename it, right?
>

We can, I guess. Are you saying you're likely to forget? :P

For 12, it would probably be good to have a more clear deprecation notice
into the documentations. Is that something on your list of things to work
on, or should someone else (like, uh, me)?

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