From 584693cc6dc7b016d6aa8eb840a5cdd01bc32ed3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:51:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add description about partial WAL archiving for PITR: > > Doing this will allow administrators to know more easily when the > archive contins all the files needed for point-in-time recovery. --- doc/TODO | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index f8157d8dc67..46ac305502a 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL ======================== Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) -Last updated: Sun Apr 17 23:17:13 EDT 2005 +Last updated: Mon Apr 18 08:51:13 EDT 2005 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org. @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ Administration * Force archiving of partially-full WAL files when pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped + + Doing this will allow administrators to know more easily when the + archive contins all the files needed for point-in-time recovery. + * Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining transaction id for point-in-time recovery * Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation @@ -455,7 +459,7 @@ Commands * COPY o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue - + This requires the use of a savepoint before each COPY line is processed, with ROLLBACK on COPY failure. @@ -468,7 +472,7 @@ Commands * CURSOR o Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor - + This requires using the row ctid to map cursor rows back to the original heap row. This become more complicated if WITH HOLD cursors are to be supported because WITH HOLD cursors have a copy of the row @@ -487,7 +491,7 @@ Commands o Allow INSERT/UPDATE of the system-generated oid value for a row o Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..) o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col - + This is useful for returning the auto-generated key for an INSERT. One complication is how to handle rules that run as part of the insert. @@ -661,7 +665,7 @@ Exotic Features to clients * Allow queries across databases or servers with transaction semantics - + Right now contrib/dblink can be used to issue such queries except it does not have locking or transaction semantics. Two-phase commit is needed to enable transaction semantics. -- GitLab