Re: Updated backup APIs for non-exclusive backups

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Marco Nenciarini <marco(dot)nenciarini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: Updated backup APIs for non-exclusive backups
Date: 2016-03-23 00:48:07
Message-ID: CAMsr+YECf8=OTicqwBxNOvnGd90RbKjGKcHKDdFOS2jcuEA6xg@mail.gmail.com
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On 23 March 2016 at 00:14, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Doing it in the backup label file is obviously a different target, where
> we might need to consider backwards compatibility, Should we?
>

As part of the failover slots a few folks at 2ndQ looked into whether tools
would get upset by the addition of new label file entries. Everything we
found used regexps to find what they wanted and didn't care in the
slightest about new lines. So I wouldn't worry too much.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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