Re: [HACKERS] Point in Time Recovery

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Klaus Naumann <kn(at)mgnet(dot)de>, markw(at)osdl(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Point in Time Recovery
Date: 2004-07-14 02:31:05
Message-ID: 40F49AE9.2060805@familyhealth.com.au
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Can you give us some suggestions of what kind of stuff to test? Is
there a way we can artificially kill the backend in all sorts of nasty
spots to see if recovery works? Does kill -9 simulate a 'power off'?

Chris

Simon Riggs wrote:

> PITR Patch v5_1 just posted has Point in Time Recovery working....
>
> Still some rough edges....but we really need some testers now to give
> this a try and let me know what you think.
>
> Klaus Naumann and Mark Wong are the only [non-committers] to have tried
> to run the code (and let me know about it), so please have a look at
> [PATCHES] and try it out.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Simon Riggs
>
>
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