Re: Point in time recovery 20020822_01_pitr.patch

"J. R. Nield" <jrnield@usol.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 00:29, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why don't you log the operations symbolically, viz "create database foo
>> with template bar"?  I can't see any reason to insist on a finer level
>> of detail than that.

> If you do symbolic logging like that, it forecloses any chance of adding
> individual relation recovery, because the template might be ahead of the
> log.

We are already assuming that the template database is stable while it's
being copied.  While there are obvious risks in that assumption, I don't
think that you need to eliminate the assumption as an essential
component of PITR ... and I think that there are a number of issues
that'd have to be solved that are completely unrelated to PITR (eg, how
do you lock a table that's in a database you aren't in, and indeed that
you don't even know exists, because you can't read the pg_class table
that describes it?)  My advice: this is a job not to tackle for version
1, and maybe not for version 2, 3, or 4...

            regards, tom lane