PITR (was Re: Type of application that use PostgreSQL)

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
> > Peter Childs wrote:
[snip]
> All that we basically need for PITR is to provide management code that
> lets old WAL segments get archived off to tape (or wherever) rather than
> deleted, plus some kind of control that lets the roll-forward process be
> stopped at the desired point-in-time rather than necessarily running to
> the end of the available WAL data. This isn't a trivial amount of code,
> but there's no great conceptual difficulty either.

Hope everybody realizes that the amount of WALs will get very big
on active-update systems...

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