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From Dave Page
Subject Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 937d27e10805290900t216a1a77wd33f78f1bba53fd5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  ("Douglas McNaught" <doug@mcnaught.org>)
Responses Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  (Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>)
Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>> The only question I have is... what does this give us that PITR doesn't
>> give us?
>
> I think the idea is that WAL records would be shipped (possibly via
> socket) and applied as they're generated, rather than on a
> file-by-file basis.  At least that's what "real-time" implies to me...

Yes, we're talking real-time streaming (synchronous) log shipping.

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Dave Page
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