Re: How do I restore data changes made after the backup?

Orr, Steve wrote:
> Newbie here...
>
> How do I restore data changes made after the backup? I've been combing the
> docs and the web site but I don't see anything on this. Given a backup taken
> this morning, and a failure requiring a database restore, how do I restroe
> the data that was added after the backup was taken this morning? Isn't there
> any log files to apply to pg_restore? Does PostgreSQL have the ability to
> restore to the point of failure so no transactions are lost? (Like Oracle?)
> Is replication commonly used for this?

You want point-in-time recovery. That is for 7.4. That should be a 6
months away.

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