Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning
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Msg-id 20040427174325.GB1712@wolff.to
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In response to Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Responses Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning  (Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>)
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:38:45 +0100, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
> 
> Speaking as a DBA, what I usually want to do is restore to "immediately before 
> I started the payroll calculation". An actual wall-clock time is mostly 
> irrelevant to me.

For long running transactions where you want to recover as much as possible,
one might also want to recover up until just before a specific transaction
committed (as opposed to started).


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