Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning
Date: 2004-04-27 20:23:14
Message-ID: 1083097393.3018.301.camel@stromboli
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On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 18:43, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:38:45 +0100,
> Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking as a DBA, what I usually want to do is restore to "immediately before
> > I started the payroll calculation". An actual wall-clock time is mostly
> > irrelevant to me.
>
> For long running transactions where you want to recover as much as possible,
> one might also want to recover up until just before a specific transaction
> committed (as opposed to started).

Sounds like the difference between > and >=, so should be possible...

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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