RE: OpenSource : MySQL or Postgress
- From: "Michael Fontana" <MFontana@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Leandro Guimaraes Faria C. Dutra" <ldutra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:02:59 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leandro Guimaraes Faria C. Dutra [mailto:ldutra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:36 AM
> To: Michael Fontana
> Cc: hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: OpenSource : MySQL or Postgress
>
> "Michael Fontana" <MFontana@xxxxxxxxx> gravou em 2006-04-10 17:27:10:
>
> > My research over 12 months ago indicated that true hot backup and
> > recovery capabilities similar to Oracle were not available with the
base
> > product.
>
> Is
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html
> OK, or are you thinking something else?
>
> It is there since v8.0, from 2005 Jan. Before that you could
> already do a dump.
>
Without having tested it, the recovery capabilities described in the
documentation above do seem to indicate that point in time recover is
now possible.
My question is: Does this capability come with the base product, and is
it truly free?
Another issue we have at our site is that the project running postgres
is on a version prior to 8.0, and there are no plans to upgrade. In
fact, there is no DBA assigned to the project, only developers with SQL
knowledge and a limited skill set (admittedly). They don't even see the
need for what they consider "superfluous, advanced features" such as
this.
Time will tell, won't it?
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