From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Mark Kirkwood <markir@coretech.co.nz>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Point in Time Recovery
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:42:22 -0400
Message-ID: <2654.1090467742@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407220336.i6M3a5l18707@candle.pha.pa.us>
References: <200407220336.i6M3a5l18707@candle.pha.pa.us>
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Agreed, it might not be possible, but your report does point out a
> limitation in our implementation --- that a shutdown database contains
> more information than a backup and the archive logs. That is not
> intuitive.
That's only because you are clinging to the broken assumption that
pg_xlog/ is part of the database, rather than part of the logs.
Separate that out as a distinct entity, and all gets better.
regards, tom lane
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