Re: backup and restore

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: "Martin A(dot) Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: backup and restore
Date: 2000-10-09 18:32:36
Message-ID: 200010091832.OAA26329@candle.pha.pa.us
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> "Martin A. Marques" wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > This will be in 7.1 as WAL (write-ahead log).
> >
> > What does this exactly mean? Will this WAL be an equivalent of the logical
> > log of Informix? Where will they be kept? In the database, as a file, or as
> > either?
> > Looks pretty good. All that is needed after this is a good blob
> > implementation (for text and binary data).
>
> TOAST. Coming for 7.1.
>
> And we thought 7.0 had alot of new features relative to 6.5.....

I think the true feature-killer release was 6.5.

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