A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) wrote: > Austin Gonyou wrote: >> As previously stated by Bruce I believe, the mindshare department needs >> some work. For this, the PITR is a necessity, but also when comparing >> features with other DBs that people and businesses are currently >> familiar with. > > PITR is required to recover all data after total hardware failure. It > isn't just a mindshare issue.
One of the valuable "use cases" of PITR is in replication, and correspondingly, one of the valuable "use cases" of replication is in doing major version upgrades. As a result, a _really valuable thing_ would be for the "PITR reader" process to be able to read data from "more elderly" versions of PostgreSQL. That may not prove practical, but the more flexible it is, the more useful it certainly is... -- "cbbrowne","@","cbbrowne.com" http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/wp.html Space Corps Directive #997: Work done by an officer's doppleganger in a parallel universe cannot be claimed as overtime. -- Red Dwarf ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
