On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>> The only question I have is... what does this give us that PITR doesn't
>> give us?
>
> I think the idea is that WAL records would be shipped (possibly via
> socket) and applied as they're generated, rather than on a
> file-by-file basis. At least that's what "real-time" implies to me...
Yes, we're talking real-time streaming (synchronous) log shipping.
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