Re: Implementing incremental backup

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Implementing incremental backup
Date: 2013-06-19 22:56:19
Message-ID: 20130619225619.GW23363@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Tatsuo Ishii (ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org) wrote:
> Yeah, at first I thought using WAL was a good idea. However I realized
> that the problem using WAL is we cannot backup unlogged tables because
> they are not written to WAL.

Unlogged tables are also nuked on recovery, so I'm not sure why you
think an incremental backup would help.. If you're recovering (even
from a simple crash), unlogged tables are going to go away.

Put simply, unlogged tables should not be used for any data you care
about, period.

Thanks,

Stephen

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