Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:22, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:
> > 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?
> 
> How hard would it be to extend PITR for master-slave (hot backup)
> repliaction, which should then amount to continuously shipping logs to
> slave and doing nonstop PITR there :)
> 
> It will never be usable for multi-master replication, but somehow it
> feels that for master-slave replication simple log replay would be most
> simple and robust solution.

Exactly.  See my previous email.  We eventually have two replication
solutions:  one, Postgres-R for multi-master, and PITR used for for
asynchonous master/slave.

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