Re: Continuous PITR (was Re: multimaster)

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Continuous PITR (was Re: multimaster)
Date: 2007-06-01 22:12:01
Message-ID: 466099B1.1040508@cox.net
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On 06/01/07 16:25, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:58:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> What you need are disk blocks to be mirrored to a machine at the DR
>> site. Or "continuous PITR" to the DR machine.
>
> I thought you could already do this? (I'm not, but I was pretty sure
> someone reported doing it already.)

From within PG, or "manually"?

>> This then begs the question: are CREATE|ALTER TABLESPACE commands
>> stored in the xlogs?
>
> (I'll spare the rant about begging the question.) Since they're
> transactional, they must be, no?

I wasn't sure whether they were a special case or not.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

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