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Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-27T20:23:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 18:43, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:38:45 +0100,
>   Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Speaking as a DBA, what I usually want to do is restore to "immediately before 
> > I started the payroll calculation". An actual wall-clock time is mostly 
> > irrelevant to me.
> 
> For long running transactions where you want to recover as much as possible,
> one might also want to recover up until just before a specific transaction
> committed (as opposed to started).

Sounds like the difference between > and >=, so should be possible...

Best Regards, Simon Riggs