Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 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 17:43:25
Message-ID: 20040427174325.GB1712@wolff.to
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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).

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