Re: Postgressql backup/restore question - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Postgressql backup/restore question
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Msg-id 1236200757.31880.116.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Re: Postgressql backup/restore question  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Postgressql backup/restore question
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:59 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> samana srikanth wrote:
> >>> Can we do a point-in-time restore of a single database out of n
> >>> databases??.
> >>
> >> In principle no.  But you could invent workarounds such as recovering to
> >> the point where you are happy with your restored one database, and then
> >> restore the other n-1 databases from an SQL dump.
>
> > It is possible, but we just don't currently support it.
>
> It's not as easy as all that.  What will you do with updates to shared
> catalogs?

Apply them.

So: its possible to do shared catalogs plus a subset of other databases.
I was assuming that updates to shared catalogs were small overall.

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