Re: [GENERAL] PITR timeline question

2006-08-10 Thread Csaba Nagy
> There's been some speculation about allowing a standby server to execute > purely read-only operations, but it's just speculation so far. To add some more speculations, I wonder if that can be workable at all... given that the data pages are overwritten by WAL records, and not under transactiona

Re: [GENERAL] PITR timeline question

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 3, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The only way to "roll time backwards" is to replace the data directory >> with a backup, so if I understand your question correctly, the answer >> is no. > Well, specifically I was thinking of... > Roll PITR fo

Re: [GENERAL] PITR timeline question

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Nasby
On Aug 3, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you're using multiple timelines with PITR, do you have to re-copy all the data files into the cluster every time you start a new timeline? Or can you copy the data files out of the backup once, and then perform

Re: [GENERAL] PITR timeline question

2006-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're using multiple timelines with PITR, do you have to re-copy > all the data files into the cluster every time you start a new > timeline? Or can you copy the data files out of the backup once, and > then perform multiple recoveries, each to diff