Tom Lane wrote:
>>- how to restore a single database
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>You don't. As I said, any physical backup is going to be
>all-or-nothing. These techniques are not a replacement for pg_dump.
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That's sad. I've been backing up and restoring single databases from a
cluster frequently, so I'd really like the database to be selectable.
>That's part of the management code that we need to write before this
>will really be very useful; you need to be able to associate the
>starting time of a tar dump with the most recent previous CHECKPOINT
>in the WAL logs. Not hard in principle, just takes some code we ain't
>got yet.
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So I lay back patiently (more or less :-)
Regards,
Andreas