Preliminary PITR documentation available

People have been complaining (not without reason) that without any
documentation they can hardly test the new PITR code. I have hacked
up and committed some rough docs that should be enough for testing.
They're on-line now at
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/backup-online.html
and should within a few hours be visible at
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/backup-online.html
(but right now the latter page contains only an introductory blurb).

I love this:

"The ability to restore the database to a previous point in time creates
some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time
travel and parallel universes."

Awesome :)

Chris

I thought Simon was going to give us some docs for PITR. Did he or did
you have to write up your own?

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Tom Lane wrote:

People have been complaining (not without reason) that without any
documentation they can hardly test the new PITR code. I have hacked
up and committed some rough docs that should be enough for testing.
They're on-line now at
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/backup-online.html
and should within a few hours be visible at
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/backup-online.html
(but right now the latter page contains only an introductory blurb).

regards, tom lane

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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

People have been complaining (not without reason) that without any
documentation they can hardly test the new PITR code. I have hacked
up and committed some rough docs that should be enough for testing.
They're on-line now at
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/backup-online.html
and should within a few hours be visible at
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/backup-online.html
(but right now the latter page contains only an introductory blurb).

I love this:

"The ability to restore the database to a previous point in time creates
some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time
travel and parallel universes."

Is it science-fiction, or just relativity?

Mike Mascari

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

I love this:

"The ability to restore the database to a previous point in time creates
some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time
travel and parallel universes."

Well, the code *works* but I'm not entirely sure how to explain the
feature. These are just rough docs ... feel free to step up and do
better ...

regards, tom lane

Certainly gave me a chuckle. Technical documentation with humour...now the
product has *everything*.

Mark

Quoting Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:27:35PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Mike Mascari, and lo! it spake thus:

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

"The ability to restore the database to a previous point in time creates
some complexities that are akin to science-fiction stories about time
travel and parallel universes."

Is it science-fiction, or just relativity?

Depends on how fast you read it.

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