Re: Does postgresql support transaction logs

It is called point-in-time recovery and we are working on it for our
next release.

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Kelley Trombly-Freytag wrote:
> I am evaluation postgresql as a replacement for an database
> that supports almost real-time measurements. The current
> database (Sybase) has transaction logs that can be dumped
> periodically during the day, to be used for recovery support.
> They are applied to the database dump to bring the data
> back up-to-the-minute of the last transaction log dump.
>
> I have searched the archives and found older messages referencing
> transaction logs and postgresql, as in, "postgresql does not
> support transaction logs now but we hope to in the future".
>
> Has the furture arrived. Does the most recent version of postgresql
> support dumpable and appliable transaction logs?
>
> Thank you,
>
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> Kelley Trombly-Freytag
> Fermilab
> kfreytag@fnal.gov
>
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