> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: >> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous >> Backup". > > This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the standard > terminology AFAIK.
There's something ambiguous about it, in view that there are two useful points in time for a backup to be "as of," namely: a) The start time (which is what pg_dump does), and b) The end time (which I believe is not uncommon with other systems). PITR is obviously more like b)... -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','gmail.com'). http://linuxfinances.info/info/slony.html Keeping instructions and operands in different memories saves .20 (.09) microseconds. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly