Re: PITR status

PITR is months away.

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Charlie Woloszynski wrote:
> Can anyone comment on the status of point-in-time recovery (PITR?) I
> am looking to move an application over to PostgreSQL onto a Mac (I'll
> try to avoid the divide-by-zero issue :-) ) and PITR would really help
> the backup/recovery plan to accept PostgreSQL as a solution with fast
> recovery times.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 02:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> >> So ... the workaround for 7.2.4 would be to have a server-side script
> >> hunt for
> >> idle connections after shutdown and kill -9 them?
> >
> > Yuck. I'd recommend back-porting the patch to 7.2 instead; should be
> > easy enough:
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/
> > commands/async.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92
> >
> > Now, if you can reproduce the problem even with that patch in place,
> > I'm
> > very interested in looking at the state of the system ...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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