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 transactional

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

2006-08-09 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 forward and

[GENERAL] PITR timeline question

2006-08-03 Thread Jim Nasby
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 different timelines? Ultimately, what I'd like

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 different