Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment

On 6/2/20 1:30 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Ron (ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> On 6/2/20 4:59 AM, Grigory Smolkin wrote:
>>> On 6/2/20 11:22 AM, Ron wrote:
>>>> The inability to do a point-in-time restoration of a *single* database
>>>> in a multi-db cluster is a serious -- and fundamental -- missing feature
>>>> (never to be implemented because of the fundamental design).
>>> It is possible via 3rd party tools like pg_probackup and pgbackrest.
>> pgbackrest does *not* support PITR recovery of individual databases into
>> *new* database names in the same cluster (so that the end user can have both
>> the current database and an old version at the same time).
> No, nothing does as PG doesn't support it as we have one WAL stream for
> the entire cluster.

Right.  Making WAL files specific to a database should be high on the list
of priorities.

> Generally speaking, I discourage having lots of databases under one PG
> cluster for exactly these kinds of reasons.

It's just two... :)

> PG's individual clusters are relatively lightweight, after all.

But require a new port, and Enterprises have Processes that must be followed.

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