Re: Big 7.4 items

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Janardhan wrote:
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> jana
>
> >Patrick Macdonald wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:
> >>>
> >>>[snip]
> >>>
> >>>Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
> >>>
> >>> J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick
> >>> MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and
> >>> adding any missing pieces. Patrick, do you have an ETA on that?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Neil Conway and I will be working on this starting the beginning
> >>of January. By the middle of January, we hope to have a handle on
> >>an ETA.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Ewe, that is later than I was hoping. I have put J.R's PITR patch up
> >at:
> >
> > ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/PITR_20020822_02.gz
> >
> >(I have tried to contact J.R. several times over the past few months,
> >with no reply.)
> >
> >J.R felt it was ready to go. I would like to have an evaluation of the
> >patch to know what it does and what is missing. I would like that
> >sooner rather than later because:
> >
> > o I want to avoid too much code drift
> > o I don't want to find there are major pieces missing and to
> > not have enough time to implement them in 7.4
> > o It is a big feature so I would like sufficient testing before beta
> >
> >OK, I just talked to Patrick on the phone, and he says Neil Conway is
> >working on merging the code into 7.3, and adding missing pieces like
> >logging table creation. So, it seems PITR is moving forward. Neil, can
> >you comment on where you are with this, and what still needs to be done?
> >Do we need to start looking at log archiving options? How is the PITR
> >log contents different from the WAL log contents, except of course no
> >pre-write page images?
> >
> >If we need to discuss things, perhaps we can do it now and get folks
> >working on other pieces, or at least thinking about them.
> >
> >
> >
>

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