I'd say yes replication can solve lot of issues, but is there a way to do replication in postgres(active-active or
active-passive)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:27 PM
To: shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Hot Backup
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2002 at 13:48, Neil Conway wrote:
>
> > "Sandeep Chadha" <sandeep@newnetco.com> writes:
> > > Postgresql has been lacking this all along. I've installed postgres
> > > 7.3b2 and still don't see any archive's flushed to any other
> > > place. Please let me know how is hot backup procedure implemented in
> > > current 7.3 beta(2) release.
> > AFAIK no such hot backup feature has been implemented for 7.3 -- you
> > appear to have been misinformed.
>
> Is replication an answer to hot backup?
We already allow hot backups using pg_dump. If you mean point-in-time
recovery, we have a patch for that ready for 7.4.
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