Re: point-in-time recovery

Thanks for responding , but i still have
more to discuss.

On Friday 25 Apr 2003 7:47 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> > What is this PITR anyway ?
> >
> > when it comes will i be able to
> >
> > 1. reduce by pg_dump times ?
> > 2. can afford to run pg_dump less frequently ?
> > 3. Will be able to rollback committed transactions of past 5 mins?
>
> You can do a dump,

Do u mean pg_dump here, or some special command
thats doing a quick snapshot dump?

 then do continuous logging of all database changes
is this logging happening automatically for i have to give some
special command to start logging?

> until the next backup.  If you crash in the middle of the day, you can
> recover up to the point of the crash.

say i do not crash but do a

psql> DELETE from  TABLE_NAME ;
DELETE 1021
psql> Ooops what did i do , damn my last backup is 6 hrs old  ??

does PITR help me here?


And Sorry if its too early to ask


Regds
Mallah.





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