Re: question about WAL.

I understand.  We will have point-in-time recovery in 7.4, which will be
perhaps 9 months away.

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Chris Johnson wrote:
> hi group,
>     I've been told to investigate a real-time "transaction logging" for
> our website's database, currently running postgresql 7.1.  It seems to
> me that the WAL feature is what the boss is referring to but the
> documentation only covers the basics (the recovery section doesn't
> exist). I see from archives on google groups that recovery is not
> implemented yet (as of april). I was wondering if current versions fully
> supported WAL or if it's still under development? Or if there is another
> approach to get an up-to-the-current log of transactions for backup and
> recovery purposes? I'm currently using 'pg_dumpall' to get a backup
> nightly but we would like a more up to date option in case of a crash. I
> appologize if this is the wrong group of if this question is asked daily.
>
> thanks to all,
> chrisj
>
> ps. please mail me directly as I'm not on the group yet
>
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