Re: Online Backups: Minor Caveat, Major Addition?

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:54:53AM -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> 23.3.3.1 - Inline (or In-place) Recovery
> 23.3.3.2 - Remote Recovery or Recovery into a New Cluster
> 23.3.3.3 - Continuous Recovery
>
> The "Inline Recovery" section would just be the existing 23.3.3
> repurposed.
>
> The "Remote/New Cluster Recovery" section would be an edited version
> of the existing 23.3.3 to eliminate step1 and include the note
> suggested above.
>
> The "Continuous Recovery" section would include details of how to
> continuously apply WAL files to a separate cluster in order to have a
> true hot standby system.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> I'd be happy to draft 23.3.3.2. I'll have to figure out how to
> implement Simon Riggs's suggestion of a wait-for-files
> recover_command including a way to interrupt in the event of a need
> for actual failover-style recovery before I could draft 23.3.3.3,
> though.

BTW, when it comes to continuous recovery you should have a look at
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpitrha/
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