Re: Big 7.4 items

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>Patrick Macdonald wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:
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>>>[snip]
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>>>Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
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>>>        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?
>>>      
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>>Neil Conway and I will be working on this starting the beginning
>>of January.  By the middle of January, we hope to have a handle on
>>an ETA.
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>Ewe, that is later than I was hoping.  I have put J.R's PITR patch up
>at:
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>	ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/PITR_20020822_02.gz
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>(I have tried to contact J.R. several times over the past few months,
>with no reply.)
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>J.R felt it was ready to go.  I would like to have an evaluation of the
>patch to know what it does and what is missing.  I would like that
>sooner rather than later because:
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>	o  I want to avoid too much code drift
>	o  I don't want to find there are major pieces missing and to 
>	   not have enough time to implement them in 7.4
>	o  It is a big feature so I would like sufficient testing before beta
>
>OK, I just talked to Patrick on the phone, and he says Neil Conway is
>working on merging the code into 7.3, and adding missing pieces like
>logging table creation.  So, it seems PITR is moving forward.  Neil, can
>you comment on where you are with this, and what still needs to be done?
>Do we need to start looking at log archiving options?  How is the PITR
>log contents different from the WAL log contents, except of course no
>pre-write page images?
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>If we need to discuss things, perhaps we can do it now and get folks
>working on other pieces, or at least thinking about them.
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