Re: Long term database archival - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: Long term database archival
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Msg-id 44AE42F2.2090103@wildenhain.de
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In response to Re: Long term database archival  (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>)
List pgsql-general
Csaba Nagy schrieb:
...
> Karl, I would say that if you really want data from 20 years ago, keep
> it in the custom format, along with a set of the sources of postgres
> which created the dump. then in 20 years when you'll need it, you'll
> compile the sources and load the data in the original postgres
> version... of course you might need to also keep an image of the current
> OS and the hardware you're running on if you really want to be sure it
> will work in 20 years :-)

No need - you will just emulate the whole hardware in 20 years ;-)

Regards
Tino

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