Re: WAL logs multiplexing?

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dmitry Panov <dmitry@tsu.tula.ru> writes:
> > I'm currently considering setting up online backup procedure and I
> > thought maybe it would be a useful feature if the online logs could be
> > written into more than one place (something like oracle redo logs
> > multiplexing).
>
> You can do whatever you want in the archive_command script.
>

Yes, but if the server has crashed earlier the script won't be called
and if the filesystem can't be recovered the changes will be lost. My
point is the server should write into both (or more) files at the same
time.


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