Re: PITR for replication?

On Fri, 1 Apr 2004, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:

>
> I may be completely missing the point here, but it looks to me as though
> the PITR archival mechanism is also most of a native replication
> facility.  Is there anyone reason this couldn't be extended to
> replication, and if so, is anyone planning on using it as such?
>
> My memory is fuzzy on this point, but I seem to recall that this is
> (was?) how replication is more-or-less done for many of the big
> commercial RDBMS.

Logfile shipping is one replication option some commercial vendors offer.
It doesn't solve all problems however. It is mostly used for hot backups
in my experience.

Gavin