On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 17:36, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 21:56, Rod Taylor wrote: > > > Overall, I'd refer back to the points Bruce raised - you certainly do > > > need a way of finding out the time to recover to, and as others have > > > said also, time isn't the only desirable "recovery point". > > > > Wouldn't it be sufficient to simply use the transaction ID and ensure > > that all the parameters the user might want to use to find that ID can > > be made available in the log files?
> Yes, of course, all methods of locating a particular xlog file to stop > at are effectively equivalent. The discussion is mostly about what is > convenient for the user in a real recovery situation. I see.. The first thing I would need to do is look at /var/log/pgsql. At that point it really doesn't matter what the identifier is so long as the identifier is there. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org