Bruce Momjian wrote: > > 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.
Well, sort of. I stated that Neil was already working on merging the patch into the CVS tip. I also mentioned that there are missing pieces but have no idea if Neil is currently working on them. Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Macdonald Red Hat Database Development ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster