Re: PITR - recovery to a particular transaction

From: G u i d o B a r o s i o <gbarosio(at)uolsinectis(dot)com(dot)ar>
To: olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PITR - recovery to a particular transaction
Date: 2004-08-04 16:59:55
Message-ID: 20040804165955.ADDB56CB43@tino.sinectis.com.ar
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8.0 || 7.5??

g:)

> The PITR docs that have just been put up say:
>
> But if you want to recover to some previous point in time (say,
> right before the junior DBA dropped your main transaction
> table), just specify the required stopping point in
> recovery.conf. You can specify the stop point either by
> date/time or by transaction ID. As of this writing only the
> date/time option is very usable, since there are no tools to
> help you identify which transaction ID to use.
>
> How about adding a logging option to put the transaction id on the log
> for every statement that modifies the database? Would that be a small
> enough change to be allowed into 8.0?
> --
> Oliver Elphick olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk
> Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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> patience, experience; and experience, hope."
> Romans 5:3,4
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