Re: Point in Time Recovery

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Point in Time Recovery
Date: 2004-07-13 12:18:11
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA40184D145@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> The starting a new timeline thought works for xlogs, but not for clogs.
> No matter how far you go into the future, there is a small (yet
> vanishing) possibility that there is a yet undiscovered committed
> transaction in the future. (Because transactions are ordered in the clog
> because xids are assigned sequentially at txn start, but not ordered in
> the xlog where they are recorded in the order the txns complete).

Won't ExtendCLOG take care of this with ZeroCLOGPage ? Else the same problem
would arise at xid wraparound, no ?

Andreas

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