Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:41:26PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
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>     > And no it is at least not well documented. But there are other parts
>     which
>     > aren't as well - such as the requirement to actually run pg_stop_backup()
>     even
>     > in the case you want to abort a backup, or your next one will fail.
>     Basically
>     > the old method is quite fragile and no, we haven't documented that
>     properly
>     > previously.
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>     Well, if the API was in wide use and will be supported for several more
>     years, we had better document it, no?
>
>
> Absolutely. That was part of that "bigger backup docs rewrite" that hasn't
> happened yet, but hopefully will before the final release. 

Well, I don't even know the details of the failures, so I can't add that
information.  Let's get it in there somewhere and I can move it around
later.