Re: Wal logs

I see not out yet :-)  So what good are the wal logs to me?  What benefit are they?


-----Original Message-----
From:    Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent:    Thu 7/29/2004 11:34 PM
To:    Jason Tesser
Cc:    pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Wal logs

Point-in-time recovery coming in 7.5.  You want instructions?

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Jason Tesser wrote:
> how
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent:    Thu 7/29/2004 7:56 PM
> To:    Jason Tesser
> Cc:    pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Wal logs
> Jason Tesser wrote:
> > This question may seem trivial but how do I rebuild a database with the
> > wal logs?
>
> You can't, but with 7.5 you can archive those logs and use them and a
> recent backup for point-in-time recovery.
>
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