You are asking for point-in-time recovery. That should be in 7.2.
> Our company is deciding whether to choose Postgresql or not and
> have a question. Say we back up our database every night and the
> next day at 11am, the hard drive crashes. We then have data from
> our back up from last night, but, is there a way to have a log file sitting
> somewhere
> other than the hard drive that will allow us to retrieve all data
> from that morning and add that data to the back up? Therefore, we
> will have only lost the trasaction that we would have been working
> on because it has not been commited. Any answer would be extremely helpful.
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