Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am _still_ unclear on what still needs to be done to complete NT and > PITR. Are you more aware of the open issues?
NT: feature-wise, we need to commit the SAVEPOINT-syntax patch, which I think needs only minor adjustments, and we need to do something with exception handling in plpgsql, which is what I'm looking at now. Bug-wise, we had a list of about a dozen bugs and performance problems, which I think Alvaro is whittling down. IIRC there were not any that would really be "can't enter beta with this unfixed" things, even if he can't get them all done by the end of the month. PITR: I think the only issue that's really on the table is adding support that lets us reliably identify the starting and ending WAL offsets associated with a tar dump. The former is needed so DBAs know how far back they must save WAL segments, and the latter is needed so that restore can sanity-check stopping-point requests. This is basically what you wanted to add backup-start and backup-stop server-side functions to support. I believe Simon is going to take care of this (if not he'd better speak up). Other than the spectacular lack of documentation, I don't think we are in bad shape at all. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend