Re: Postgressql backup/restore question

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> This behavior might be all right for an emergency recovery kind of tool,
> but I can't see us considering it a supported feature.

I agree post-recovery cleanup would be required to bring up a fully safe
read-write database. That's one of the reasons my longer term thoughts
are towards running transactions immediately after recovery completes,
for other uses also.

> The larger point though is that I suspect what the OP really is looking
> for is "restore just this one database into my existing cluster, without
> breaking the other databases that are already in it". There is zero
> chance of ever doing that with a WAL-based backup --- transaction ID
> inconsistencies would break it, even without considering the contents
> of shared catalogs.

Agreed.

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