Re: [HACKERS] Point in Time Recovery

Simon Riggs wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 03:31, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
>>Can you give us some suggestions of what kind of stuff to test?  Is
>>there a way we can artificially kill the backend in all sorts of nasty
>>spots to see if recovery works?  Does kill -9 simulate a 'power off'?
>>
>
>
> I was hoping some fiendish plans would be presented to me...
>
> But please start with "this feels like typical usage" and we'll go from
> there...the important thing is to try the first one.
>
> I've not done power off tests, yet. They need to be done just to
> check...actually you don't need to do this to test PITR...
>
> We need to exhaustive tests of...
> - power off
> - scp and cross network copies
> - all the permuted recovery options
> - archive_mode = off (i.e. current behaviour)
> - deliberately incorrectly set options (idiot-proof testing)

If you write also how to perform these tests it's also good in order to show
which problem PITR is addressing, I mean I know that is addressing a power off
but how I will recover it ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola