backup_manifest rename to backup_manifest.old after successful postgres start up

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 01:53:23AM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote:

Hi, suggest to automatically rename backup_manifest to backup_manifest.old
like backup_label when postgres start up successfully because it has no use
anymore for pg_verifybackup after postgres has been started.

Yes, I would agree with you that it is not especially useful to keep
it around once the cluster has been recovered from a base backup. It
would actually lead to various errors if attempting to run
pg_verifybackup on its data folder, for instance.
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Michael