Re: PITR Phase 2 - Design Planning

Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>

From: Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-27T23:02:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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).

If your DB has died and you are recovering it, how do you reestablish a 
session so that a transaction can complete ? Doesn't all client 
connections assume that a transaction has failed if the connection to 
the DB fails ?

Or am I just being naive, as usual ?

Peter