Re: Online backup vs Continuous backup

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
>> Backup".
>
> This doesn't seem like an improvement.  "Online backup" is the standard
> terminology AFAIK.

There's something ambiguous about it, in view that there are two
useful points in time for a backup to be "as of," namely:
 a) The start time (which is what pg_dump does), and
 b) The end time (which I believe is not uncommon with other systems).

PITR is obviously more like b)...
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