Remove exclusive backup mode
authorStephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Wed, 6 Apr 2022 18:41:03 +0000 (14:41 -0400)
committerStephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Wed, 6 Apr 2022 18:41:03 +0000 (14:41 -0400)
commit39969e2a1e4d7f5a37f3ef37d53bbfe171e7d77a
tree7b1e10c1147783ef0a21b76d78657921696be791
parent14d3f24fa8a21f8a7e66f1fc60253a1e11410bf3
Remove exclusive backup mode

Exclusive-mode backups have been deprecated since 9.6 (when
non-exclusive backups were introduced) due to the issues
they can cause should the system crash while one is running and
generally because non-exclusive provides a much better interface.
Further, exclusive backup mode wasn't really being tested (nor was most
of the related code- like being able to log in just to stop an exclusive
backup and the bits of the state machine related to that) and having to
possibly deal with an exclusive backup and the backup_label file
existing during pg_basebackup, pg_rewind, etc, added other complexities
that we are better off without.

This patch removes the exclusive backup mode, the various special cases
for dealing with it, and greatly simplifies the online backup code and
documentation.

Authors: David Steele, Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Chapman Flack
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac7339ca-3718-3c93-929f-99e725d1172c@pgmasters.net
https://postgr.es/m/CAHg+QDfiM+WU61tF6=nPZocMZvHDzCK47Kneyb0ZRULYzV5sKQ@mail.gmail.com
24 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
src/backend/access/transam/xlogfuncs.c
src/backend/access/transam/xlogrecovery.c
src/backend/catalog/system_functions.sql
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
src/backend/replication/basebackup.c
src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c
src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl
src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
src/bin/pg_rewind/filemap.c
src/include/access/xlog.h
src/include/catalog/pg_control.h
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
src/include/libpq/libpq-be.h
src/include/miscadmin.h
src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Cluster.pm
src/test/recovery/t/010_logical_decoding_timelines.pl