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Janardhan wrote: > The file "ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/PITR_20020822_02.gz" > do not > have read permissions to copy. please provide the read permissions to copy. > > Regards > jana > > >Patrick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > >>Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4: > >>> > >>>[snip] > >>> > >>>Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) > >>> > >>> J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick > >>> MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and > >>> adding any missing pieces. Patrick, do you have an ETA on that? > >>> > >>> > >>Neil Conway and I will be working on this starting the beginning > >>of January. By the middle of January, we hope to have a handle on > >>an ETA. > >> > >> > > > >Ewe, that is later than I was hoping. I have put J.R's PITR patch up > >at: > > > > ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/PITR_20020822_02.gz > > > >(I have tried to contact J.R. several times over the past few months, > >with no reply.) > > > >J.R felt it was ready to go. I would like to have an evaluation of the > >patch to know what it does and what is missing. I would like that > >sooner rather than later because: > > > > o I want to avoid too much code drift > > o I don't want to find there are major pieces missing and to > > not have enough time to implement them in 7.4 > > o It is a big feature so I would like sufficient testing before beta > > > >OK, I just talked to Patrick on the phone, and he says Neil Conway is > >working on merging the code into 7.3, and adding missing pieces like > >logging table creation. So, it seems PITR is moving forward. Neil, can > >you comment on where you are with this, and what still needs to be done? > >Do we need to start looking at log archiving options? How is the PITR > >log contents different from the WAL log contents, except of course no > >pre-write page images? > > > >If we need to discuss things, perhaps we can do it now and get folks > >working on other pieces, or at least thinking about them. > > > > > > > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster