| From: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Mike Biamonte <mbiamonte(at)affinitysolutions(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WAL -> Replication |
| Date: | 2002-04-26 05:38:05 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.4.43.0204261437130.1733-100000@angelic.cynic.net |
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> WAL files are kept only until an fsync(), checkpoint, then reused.
One could keep them longer though, if one really wanted to.
> Also, the info is tied to direct locations in the file. You could do
> this for hot backup, but it would require quite bit of coding to make it
> work.
That's kind of too bad, since log shipping is a very popular method of
backup and replication.
Not that I'm volunteering to fix this. :-)
cjs
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