| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, samana srikanth <samanasrikanth(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgressql backup/restore question |
| Date: | 2009-03-04 21:05:57 |
| Message-ID: | 1236200757.31880.116.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant |
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:59 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> samana srikanth wrote:
> >>> Can we do a point-in-time restore of a single database out of n
> >>> databases??.
> >>
> >> In principle no. But you could invent workarounds such as recovering to
> >> the point where you are happy with your restored one database, and then
> >> restore the other n-1 databases from an SQL dump.
>
> > It is possible, but we just don't currently support it.
>
> It's not as easy as all that. What will you do with updates to shared
> catalogs?
Apply them.
So: its possible to do shared catalogs plus a subset of other databases.
I was assuming that updates to shared catalogs were small overall.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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