Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

On 2019-01-05 13:19:20 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > On 12/12/2018 05:31, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > Most of the features I've been involved in removing have been
> > > deprecated for 5+ years.  The first release where this one was
> > > deprecated was only 2 years ago.  So it feels dramatically faster to
> > > me than what I think we have typically done.
> > 
> > I was just looking this up as well, and I find it too fast.  The
> > nonexclusive backups were introduced in 9.6.  So I'd say that we could
> > remove the exclusive ones when 9.5 goes EOL.  (That would mean this
> > patch could be submitted for PostgreSQL 13, since 9.5 will go out of
> > support around the time PG13 would be released.)
> 
> I don't agree with either the notion that we have to wait 5 years in
> this case or that we've only had a good alternative to the exclusive
> backup mode since 9.5 as we've had pg_basebackup since 9.1.

I don't agree with a general 5 year deprecation window either. But it
seems pretty clear that there's no majority for removing exclusive
backups in v12.   I think it'd be good to make the warning about its
impending death more explicit, but otherwise mark this CF entry either
as rejected or returned with feedback.

Greetings,

Andres Freund