Re: Multiple WALs for PITR ?

Michael Kleiser wrote:
> I wan`t to use Point in Time Recovery
> I allread read
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/backup-online.html#BACKUP-ARCHIVING-WAL
>
>
> But I still wonder, if it is possible for PostgreSQL 8.0 to write
> multiple, redundant WAL-Files
> like Oracles with its redo-log-groups ?

Could you explain what do this feature that PITR implementation don't support ?


> Is threre an equivalent to Oracles "ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE" ?

Given that this is Postgresql list could you kindly explain what do this command,
and also why do you think Postgresql must support it?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola