Re: backup and restore

> "Martin A. Marques" wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > This will be in 7.1 as WAL (write-ahead log).
> > 
> > What does this exactly mean? Will this WAL be an equivalent of the logical
> > log of Informix? Where will they be kept? In the database, as a file, or as
> > either?
> > Looks pretty good. All that is needed after this is a good blob
> > implementation (for text and binary data).
> 
> TOAST. Coming for 7.1.
> 
> And we thought 7.0 had alot of new features relative to 6.5.....

I think the true feature-killer release was 6.5.

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