Re: Implementing incremental backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Implementing incremental backup
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Msg-id 20130620.081223.1792528449674354429.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: Implementing incremental backup  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Implementing incremental backup
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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.

If my memory serves, unlogged tables are not nuked when PostgeSQL is
stopped by a planned shutdown (not by crash or by "pg_ctl -m i
stop"). If PostgreSQL works so, incremental backup should be able to
recover unlogged tables as well, at least people would expect so IMO.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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