On Wednesday 2005-12-28 05:38, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:17:40PM +0300, Dmitry Panov wrote: > > I'm currently considering setting up online backup procedure and I > > thought maybe it would be a useful feature if the online logs could be > > written into more than one place (something like oracle redo logs > > multiplexing). > > > > If I got it right if the server's filesystem crashes completely then the > > changes that haven't gone into an archived log will be lost. If the logs > > are written into more than one place the loss could be minimal. > > So you think PostgreSQL should reimplement something that RAID > controllers already do better? > > These are reasons you have backups and PITR and other such things. I > don't think having the server log to multiple places really gains you > anything... What if one is off-site?
