Re: Implementing incremental backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Implementing incremental backup
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Msg-id 20130619225619.GW23363@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Implementing incremental backup  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Implementing incremental backup  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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* Tatsuo Ishii (ishii@postgresql.org) wrote:
> Yeah, at first I thought using WAL was a good idea.  However I realized
> that the problem using WAL is we cannot backup unlogged tables because
> they are not written to WAL.

Unlogged tables are also nuked on recovery, so I'm not sure why you
think an incremental backup would help..  If you're recovering (even
from a simple crash), unlogged tables are going to go away.

Put simply, unlogged tables should not be used for any data you care
about, period.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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