[gingerlime]

yes, when I did my little research for hosted PG, heroku was pretty much the only viable option. That said, I did come across some difficulties running `rake spec` against the heroku hosted db (since you can't drop the database, only individual tables). This was giving me some (unrelated) headache.

Another thing I was really hoping for but couldn't find with heroku, was being able to do a point-in-time-restores via the heroku web/cli interface. This would be a seriously nice feature if something like that was available...

[craigkerstiens]

Product manager of Heroku Postgres here; if you specifically need this functionality around point in time restores you should reach out to us. Would love to hear more around the use cases behind it.

[gingerlime]

Thanks Craig. I might do that, but I think we're too small fish for any kind of a bespoke solution. Given that you guys came up with WAL-E, I was secretly hoping this was somehow baked-into some magical heroku interface already...

[craigkerstiens]

Make sure to reach out, magic may already exist.

[brokenparser]

I'm just glad the "I want magical stuff for free" kind of customer isn't restricted to any particular service or product.

[gingerlime]

I didn't say I want it for free. I'm just not a big-enough customer with deep enough pockets to have some customized solution built especially for me by heroku.

It doesn't mean that other people like me wouldn't be interested in something like this if it existed.