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

From Peter Galbavy
Subject Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning
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Msg-id 40B67392.7080504@knowtion.net
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In response to Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Responses Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
ERROR: heapgettup: failed ReadBuffer  (jihuang <jihuang@iis.sinica.edu.tw>)
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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).

If your DB has died and you are recovering it, how do you reestablish a 
session so that a transaction can complete ? Doesn't all client 
connections assume that a transaction has failed if the connection to 
the DB fails ?

Or am I just being naive, as usual ?

Peter


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