From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Point in Time Recovery
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:25:34 +0100
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On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> To have a consistent recovery at all, you must replay the log starting
> from a checkpoint before the backup began and extending to the time that
> the backup finished. You only get to decide where to stop after that
> point.
>
So the situation is:
- You must only stop recovery at a point in time (in the logs) after the
backup had completed.
No way to enforce that currently, apart from procedurally. Not exactly
frequent, so I think I just document that and move on, eh?
Thanks for your help,
Best regards, Simon Riggs
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