Re: Fast index build vs. PITR - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Fast index build vs. PITR
Date
Msg-id 40BBE1A2.3000607@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Fast index build vs. PITR  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Fast index build vs. PITR
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> What I'm thinking about right now is tweaking the index-build code to
> write to WAL only if it sees that PITR is actually in use.  It would
> have to look at the GUC variables to determine whether WAL archiving
> is enabled.  If archiving isn't turned on, then we could assume that
> rollforward from a past backup isn't needed in this installation, and
> use the WAL-less index build method.

Seems reasonable.

Chris



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