Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3E0uo864335 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:56:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA19125; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:56:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200104140056.UAA19125@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Log File? In-Reply-To: "from Newbie at Apr 11, 2001 09:48:27 pm" To: Newbie Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:56:42 -0400 (EDT) CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200104/549 X-Sequence-Number: 7689 You are asking for point-in-time recovery. That should be in 7.2. > Our company is deciding whether to choose Postgresql or not and > have a question. Say we back up our database every night and the > next day at 11am, the hard drive crashes. We then have data from > our back up from last night, but, is there a way to have a log file sitting > somewhere > other than the hard drive that will allow us to retrieve all data > from that morning and add that data to the back up? Therefore, we > will have only lost the trasaction that we would have been working > on because it has not been commited. Any answer would be extremely helpful. > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026