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Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 22:10:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: pgBackRest maintenance (was Re: Tablespace size in TB)
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
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=C4=8Dt 14. 5. 2026 v 21:56 odes=C3=ADlatel Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us=
> napsal:
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 07:54:30PM +0200, Josef =C5=A0im=C3=A1nek wrote:
> > =C4=8Dt 14. 5. 2026 v 19:26 odes=C3=ADlatel Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjia=
n.us> napsal:
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 11:45:53PM -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On May 3, 2026, at 22:55, Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ik@dataegret.com>
> > > > > wrote:  Making a company-branded fork is the easiest (and wrong)
> > > > > step. Planning how to pick up the pgBackRest project or create a
> > > > > sustainable, community-driven fork that re-establishes at least t=
he
> > > > > same reputation requires longer preparation. We all need patience=
.
> > > >
> > > > Dave was quite clear that someone "picking up the pgBackRest projec=
t"
> > > > was not on the table.  I don't think that avenue is open.
> > > >
> > > > I would feel more sanguine about the idea that a new
> > > > community-sported fork will emerge if there were an existence proof
> > > > of it happening in the PostgreSQL community.  I can't think of one.
> > >
> > > That happened with pgbouncer where development stopped and a new team
> > > picked it up.  I think Peter Eisentraut was involved.  With pgbackres=
t,
> > > I think a similar thing would need to happen, but with a new name.
> >
> > I think David is back and no fork is needed currently.
> > https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/commit/b93a2b8807adabec02ef33c=
ca838e30f109c3eba
>
> Well, the pgbackrest website doesn't say that:
>
>         https://pgbackrest.org/
>
> I thought updating that would have been the first thing done if the
> status changed.

Website was also updated, but seems not deployed.
https://github.com/pgbackrest/website/commit/5516003b0f19900fe702b8afd1bc70=
bc16fede43
I have reported.

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