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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Scott Whitney <swhitney@journyx.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PITR question with base backup
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:09:51 -0300
Message-ID: <20081021200951.GC4001@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081021200239.592B47E42AE@mail.int.journyx.com>
References: <20081021200239.592B47E42AE@mail.int.journyx.com>

Scott Whitney wrote:

> The problem is that I create databases pretty regularly. Let's say I create
> 3 in a week. I'm not looking forward to going to my colo, grabbing the 20ish
> GB tgz file and restoring it 3 times per week. I'd rather do that dance
> monthly or quarterly and rely on the WALs in the interim.

What's the actual problem?  Database creation is also replayed via WAL.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support



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