| From: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
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| To: | PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Type of application that use PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2003-10-03 10:34:00 |
| Message-ID: | 1065177239.14786.69.camel@haggis |
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On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 04:26, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Peter Childs wrote:
[snip]
> Postgresql do have update logs in form of WAL. However it can not do PITR with
> log archiving if a node in cluster goes down for extended period. WAL does not
> handle these situations in current design. Precisely, PITR is the feature that
> implements this functonality.
For those not in the know, PITR is Point In Time Recovery.
And yes, that capability has been around for 20+ years on mainframes
and minicomputers, but they were/are funded a lot higher than the
PostgreSQL volunteers are!
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