On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:47:31PM +0200, Mario Splivalo wrote: > I'm doing backup on a second, spare server, by backing up WAL files. I'm > using that server for analysis queries and reporting. Every 15 minutes I > need to shut down that server, place in new WAL files, and restart > server. That is ok, except that I need to backup whole database cluster. > That wasnt't a problem before, but recently another database is in the > cluster, and it's also backed up, although I dont' need it there. > > Is there a way (even if it means a hard way?) to somehow extract DML > (except SELECTs, of course, but those aren't ih the log files, right?) > from the WALs, so I can 'replay' it where ever I find it useful? No, because the WAL files don't actually contain any of that information. They only record changes at a page/block level, and care not what commands actually made the changes. Slony might do what you're looking for... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
