RE: postgres 7.2 features. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: postgres 7.2 features.
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Msg-id 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A23018C4D@SECTORBASE1
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In response to postgres 7.2 features.  (Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>)
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> Is WAL planned for 7.1? What is the story with WAL?

Yes.

> I'm a bit concerned that the current storage manager is going to be
> thrown in the bit bucket without any thought for its benefits. There's
> some stuff I want to do with it like resurrecting time travel,

Why don't use triggers for time-travel?
Disadvantages of transaction-commit-time based time travel was pointed out
a days ago.

> some database replication stuff which can make use of the non-destructive

It was mentioned here that triggers could be used for async replication,
as well as WAL.

> storage method etc. There's a whole lot of interesting stuff that can be
> done with the current storage manager.

Vadim


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