Chan Michael wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your info.
>
> Then in PostgreSQL 7.3 how can I use the WAL log to recover?
WAL will recover itself on restart of a PostgreSQL server.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Michael
>
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@xxxxxxxxx> 說： On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:16:19PM +0800, Chan Michael wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to PostgreSQL and now want to know how can I recover from a database crash.
>>
>> I know pg_dump and pg_restore but with pg_dump all transactions between every pg_dump will be lost. I found WAL in the doc and seems with it I can archieve point-in-time recovery. But I don't know the exact steps of doing this.
>
> Point in Time Recovery wasn't added until version 8.0.
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