Re: Big 7.4 items

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joe Conway wrote:
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>>>Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
>>>
>>>	J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick
>>>	MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and
>>>	adding any missing pieces.  Patrick, do you have an ETA on that?
>>
>>As Hannu asked (and related to your question below), is there any thought of 
>>extending this to allow simple log based replication? In many important 
>>scenarios that would be more than adequate, and simpler to set up.
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For PITR-log-based-replication, how much data would be required to be pushed out to each slave system in order to bring 
it up to date?

I'm having visions of a 16MB WAL file being pushed out to slave systems in order to update them with a few rows of data...

:-/

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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