Re: 8.5 TODO: any info on "Create dump tool for write-ahead logs..." in PITR section (1.4)?

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "shakahshakah(at)gmail(dot)com" <shakahshakah(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.5 TODO: any info on "Create dump tool for write-ahead logs..." in PITR section (1.4)?
Date: 2009-10-06 01:12:50
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb0910051812v1537fc64pd12f4855cc48c22a@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> That TODO item is a lot less important after we have Hot Standby. It
> contains functions that allow you to pause and continue WAL replay, and
> step through the WAL one transaction at a time.

I don't think this is practical for PITR purpose, since applying one transaction
at a time up to the recovery target point might take very long time. So the tool
to quickly determine the recovery target point is necessary even after we have
HS, I think. Am I missing something?

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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