From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
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 15:37:14 -0500
Message-ID: <6347.1236199034@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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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?
regards, tom lane
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