From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: samana srikanth <samanasrikanth@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgressql backup/restore question
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:05:57 +0000
Message-ID: <1236200757.31880.116.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6347.1236199034@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:59 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> samana srikanth wrote:
> >>> Can we do a point-in-time restore of a single database out of n
> >>> databases??.
> >>
> >> In principle no. But you could invent workarounds such as recovering to
> >> the point where you are happy with your restored one database, and then
> >> restore the other n-1 databases from an SQL dump.
>
> > It is possible, but we just don't currently support it.
>
> It's not as easy as all that. What will you do with updates to shared
> catalogs?
Apply them.
So: its possible to do shared catalogs plus a subset of other databases.
I was assuming that updates to shared catalogs were small overall.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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