Re: WAL -> Replication

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> WAL files are kept only until an fsync(), checkpoint, then reused.

One could keep them longer though, if one really wanted to.

> Also, the info is tied to direct locations in the file.  You could do
> this for hot backup, but it would require quite bit of coding to make it
> work.

That's kind of too bad, since log shipping is a very popular method of
backup and replication.

Not that I'm volunteering to fix this. :-)

cjs
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