Re: Named restore points

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-01-14T23:44:48Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Here is a patch that implements "named restore points".
>
> It allows DBAs to specify  an exact point to which they can recover
> but that point will have a name, so they have a better control of when
> they want to stop recovery (ie: DBA's won't depend of remember
> specific times, dates and such).
>
> This adds a new function: pg_create_restore_point(text) (i'm not
> wedded with the name so if someone wants to suggest something better,
> that's fine with me), a new xlog record and a new recovery_target
> parameter in recovery.conf

Neat.

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