November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
11h 59m
English
Content preview from Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition
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Transaction log archiving and recovery
After our brief introduction to the transaction log in general, it is time to focus on the process of transaction log archiving. As we have already seen, the transaction log contains a sequence of binary changes that are made to the storage system. So, why not use it to replicate database instances and do a lot of other cool stuff, such as archiving?