RE: OpenSource : MySQL or Postgress

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leandro Guimaraes Faria C. Dutra [mailto:ldutra_at_toyota.com.br]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:36 AM
> To: Michael Fontana
> Cc: hkchital_at_singnet.com.sgg
> Subject: RE: OpenSource : MySQL or Postgress
>
> "Michael Fontana" <MFontana_at_verio.net> 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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