Re: Point-in-time data recovery - v.7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Point-in-time data recovery - v.7.4
Date
Msg-id 1069180780.2769.91.camel@haggis.homelan
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In response to Re: Point-in-time data recovery - v.7.4  (Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>)
Responses Re: Point-in-time data recovery - v.7.4
List pgsql-general
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 08:29, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:01:15PM +0100, Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote:
> > References in mailinglists talk about version 7.4 and in the TODO list
> > is under the section 'urgent'.
>
> It didn't get done.
>
> > Anybody knows when this functionality will be available with
> > prod-quality?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Jan Wieck has a proposal for a new replication system which will
> offer a trick for producing point in time as a side benefit.  We are
> aiming to have that software in use sooner rather than later, but it
> hasn't been written yet.

Supplanting PITR with Replication?  If so, I don't think that's
a good idea, since you'd either have to buy a new server, or double
disk capacity, both of which can cost noticeable amounts of money,
if SCSI disks are used.

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