Re: Big 7.4 items

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>Patrick Macdonald wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:
>>>
>>>[snip]
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>>>Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
>>>
>>> J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick
>>> MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and
>>> adding any missing pieces. Patrick, do you have an ETA on that?
>>>
>>>
>>Neil Conway and I will be working on this starting the beginning
>>of January. By the middle of January, we hope to have a handle on
>>an ETA.
>>
>>
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>Ewe, that is later than I was hoping. I have put J.R's PITR patch up
>at:
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> ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/PITR_20020822_02.gz
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>(I have tried to contact J.R. several times over the past few months,
>with no reply.)
>
>J.R felt it was ready to go. I would like to have an evaluation of the
>patch to know what it does and what is missing. I would like that
>sooner rather than later because:
>
> o I want to avoid too much code drift
> o I don't want to find there are major pieces missing and to
> not have enough time to implement them in 7.4
> o It is a big feature so I would like sufficient testing before beta
>
>OK, I just talked to Patrick on the phone, and he says Neil Conway is
>working on merging the code into 7.3, and adding missing pieces like
>logging table creation. So, it seems PITR is moving forward. Neil, can
>you comment on where you are with this, and what still needs to be done?
>Do we need to start looking at log archiving options? How is the PITR
>log contents different from the WAL log contents, except of course no
>pre-write page images?
>
>If we need to discuss things, perhaps we can do it now and get folks
>working on other pieces, or at least thinking about them.
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