[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql deltas

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Brett Henderson wrote:

> While the old date based names were easy to identify, unfortunately they
> don't work with replication files which are only approximately aligned with
> timestamps.  Initialising the replication is a little annoying due to the
> disconnect between timestamp and sequence number, but as Frederik points out
> from that point on the replication mechanism is simpler.

With the old system, I used the daily deltas if my database was lagging a 
day or more behind, hourly deltas if I was more than an hour behind and 
minutely deltas under normal operation.  As I understand it, this is no 
longer possible and I'll end up having to use minutely deltas all the 
time.  It seems that this new system is going to make the already very 
time-intensive process of applying deltas even less efficient...  Or have 
I misunderstood how this works?

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