Re: Recovery target 'immediate'

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Recovery target 'immediate'
Date: 2013-04-26 15:38:51
Message-ID: CA+TgmobGS236L0W4dU2MBFRzA7qKF+DpL44_t0nOk9eUoLiFoA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Given that I was describing how we might implement Heikki's
> suggestion, I find this comment confusing.
>
> Please explain.

Heikki's suggestion is simply to have a mode that stops as soon as
consistency is reached. The server already knows (from the backup
label) what the consistency point is, so there's no need to add a
restore point or anything else to the WAL stream to implement what
he's talking about.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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