Re: Crash Recovery, pt 2

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:48, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:12:19AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On commercial databases, there's a command to flush the roll-forward
> > logs to tape at intervals during the day.
>
> [. . .]
>
> > Are there any FM's that explain how this works in Postgres?
>
> Not yet, because you can't do it.
>
> There is, I understand, some code currently being included in 7.4 to
> do this.  So that's when it'll happen.  Look for "point in time
> recovery" or "PITR" on the -hackers list to see the progress.

Great!  That's a big step towards enterprise functiomality.

Another big step would be aggregate functions using indexes, but
that's been discussed before...

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