Re: Issues Outstanding for Point In Time Recovery (PITR)

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 15:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> J.R., just checking to see how PITR recovery is going. Do you need any
> assistance or have any questions for us?
>
> Also, do you have any idea how close you are to having something
> completed? Are you aware we are closing development of 7.3 at the end
> of August and start beta September 1? Is there any way we can help you?
>

It should be ready to go into CVS by the end of the month.

That will include: logging all operations except for rtree and GiST,
archival of logfiles (with new postgresql.conf params), headers on the
logfiles to verify the system that created them, standalone backend
recovery to a point-in-time, and a rudimentary hot backup capability.

I could use some advice on the proper way to add tests to configure.in,
given that the autoconf output is in CVS. Would you ever want a patch to
include the generated 'configure' file?

Related to that, the other place I need advice is on adding Ted Tso's
LGPL'd UUID library (stolen from e2fsprogs) to the source. Are we
allowed to use this? There is a free OSF/DCE spec for UUID's, so I can
re-implement the library if required.

We also haven't discussed commands for backup/restore, but I will use
what I think is appropriate and we can change the grammar if needed. The
initial hot-backup capability will require the database to be in
read-only mode and use tar for backup, and I will add the ability to
allow writes later.

Does this sound like a reasonable timeframe/feature-set to make the 7.3
release?

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J. R. Nield
jrnield(at)usol(dot)com