Re: Point-in-time data recovery - v.7.4

Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
Date: 2003-11-19T00:21:37Z
Lists: pgsql-general
scott.marlowe wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:39:40PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>Supplanting PITR with Replication?  If so, I don't think that's
>>
>>No, I think the idea is that if you're already using the replication
>>system, you can get this for nothing along with it.  Yes, it'll cost
>>you in hardware.
> 
> 
> No, it's more along the lines of "once the replication system is written, 
> it can be adapted to provide PITR (without the need for actual 
> replication) as a side effect.

I think the opposit:

Once the PITR is written it can be used for Replication as side
effect.

For example the Sybase Replication is implemented in this way.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola