Re: Replication and PITR

From: Bo Lorentsen <bl(at)netgroup(dot)dk>
To: Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>
Cc: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Replication and PITR
Date: 2006-09-22 05:58:41
Message-ID: 45137B91.3070106@netgroup.dk
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Chander Ganesan wrote:
> Keep in mind that while Slony-I provides you with a read-only replica
> (able to service queries). At present WAL log replication (in 8.2 or
> otherwise) would allow you to have a 'warm standby' type database -
> which would be somewhat in sync (pending the latest transactions), but
> would be unable to service queries (essentially, you'd have a server
> that was sitting with postmaster in a recovery state).
>
Interesting note ... do you know how fare PG would be from being able to
be in "read-only" state when receiving PITR data ? Is it a complex
problem or a simple one to solve ?

/BL

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