Re: WAL and pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: WAL and pg_dump
Date
Msg-id 1135208028.2964.329.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to WAL and pg_dump  (Mike C <smith.not.western@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: WAL and pg_dump  (Mike C <smith.not.western@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:18 +1300, Mike C wrote:
> All the documentation I've seen for PITR points to having to do a file
> system copy of sorts.

Yes. There's no other way, but why would you want another way?

> Is it possible to have a weekly pg_dump and restore the database up to
> the last archived WAL file if the db server fails?

No.

pg_dump only copies the data, not the current state of the database.

> If so, how? Is it just a matter of restoring the database then copying
> the archived WAL files into the xlog dir and creating a recovery.conf
> file?

Best Regards, Simon Riggs


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