Re: Preliminary PITR documentation available - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Preliminary PITR documentation available
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Msg-id 411045D1.10307@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Preliminary PITR documentation available  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Preliminary PITR documentation available  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Preliminary PITR documentation available  (Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>)
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> People have been complaining (not without reason) that without any
> documentation they can hardly test the new PITR code.  I have hacked
> up and committed some rough docs that should be enough for testing.
> They're on-line now at
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/backup-online.html
> and should within a few hours be visible at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/backup-online.html
> (but right now the latter page contains only an introductory blurb).

I love this:

"The ability to restore the database to a previous point in time creates 
some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time 
travel and parallel universes."

Awesome :)

Chris



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