Re: Concatenate WAL contents

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:55:49AM +0200, Houssais Hugues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to unify many distant Postgres databases, we decided to use WAL
> archiving. The idea is to concatenate a distant WAL archive at the
> beginning of a local WAL archive before launching PITR restore.
>
> Does anyone know how to concatenate WAL contents, i.e. decode and encode
> WAL files using the address of backup files (aaa in xxxxx.aaa.backup
> files)?

It's not possible to do multi-master WAL-based replication, because it
describes table changes at a binary level.
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