Re: Preliminary PITR documentation available

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Preliminary PITR documentation available
Date: 2004-08-04 02:11:29
Message-ID: 411045D1.10307@familyhealth.com.au
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> People have been complaining (not without reason) that without any
> documentation they can hardly test the new PITR code. I have hacked
> up and committed some rough docs that should be enough for testing.
> They're on-line now at
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/backup-online.html
> and should within a few hours be visible at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/backup-online.html
> (but right now the latter page contains only an introductory blurb).

I love this:

"The ability to restore the database to a previous point in time creates
some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time
travel and parallel universes."

Awesome :)

Chris

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