Re: Recovery target 'immediate' - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Recovery target 'immediate'
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Msg-id CA+TgmobGS236L0W4dU2MBFRzA7qKF+DpL44_t0nOk9eUoLiFoA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Recovery target 'immediate'  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Given that I was describing how we might implement Heikki's
> suggestion, I find this comment confusing.
>
> Please explain.

Heikki's suggestion is simply to have a mode that stops as soon as
consistency is reached.  The server already knows (from the backup
label) what the consistency point is, so there's no need to add a
restore point or anything else to the WAL stream to implement what
he's talking about.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company



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