Documentation on PITR still scarce

From: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Documentation on PITR still scarce
Date: 2004-11-05 15:28:38
Message-ID: 20041105152838.GA13646@mcknight.de
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Hi there,

I just wanted to try the PITR feature in beta and got it working somehow.
However I think the docs on this point are still not sufficient enough.

We have to assume that people will have a closer look at the backup/recovery
documentation as soon as 8.0 ships, because we're kinda heavily advertizing
for 8.0 with the PITR feature.

In chapter 22, "Backup and Restore", there is not a single example of a
recovery.conf, nor is any of these parameters even mentioned:

recovery_target_time
recovery_target_xid
recovery_target_timeline
recovery_target_inclusive

There's an example file in the source tree in backend/access/transam
however.

So from looking at the docs only it's quite difficult to figure out how it
works in practice. I'd appreciate an example with multiple timelines as
well.

Joachim

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