Namrata writes:
> I want to know about the WAL. How it is used in postgreSQL and how it is implemented and how data is recovered using
WAL?
-> Administrator's Guide
> Is there any provision for fault tolerance provided in postgreSQL?
If you mean "hardware fault": not really.
> Is there any versioning of data provided in postgreSQL when we alter the table contentes ( say If I add new column to
thetable and after some time if
> I don't want new column. I want my previous table contents. Can I get it using the versioning of the data? )
"Time travel" was removed several years ago, and I don't think it ever
covered schema changes. You can do this with triggers, there should be an
example somewhere in contrib, IIRC.
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