Re: Big 7.4 items

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, sort of. I stated that Neil was already working on merging the
patch into the CVS tip. I also mentioned that there are missing
pieces but have no idea if Neil is currently working on them.

Cheers,
Patrick
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Patrick Macdonald
Red Hat Database Development