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how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup?
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* how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup?
@ 2022-11-21 12:45 Zwettler Markus (OIZ) <Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch>
  2022-11-21 14:31 ` Re: how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup? Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Zwettler Markus (OIZ) @ 2022-11-21 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>

Hi,

In Oracle there is a view v$archived_log in which for each logfile the time of the first and last transaction contained in it is indicated. By means of this view one can infer from a log file in the backup the maximum possible recovery time.

Is there something similar in Postgres? Or in other words, how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup?

Thanks, Markus

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* Re: how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup?
  2022-11-21 12:45 how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup? Zwettler Markus (OIZ) <Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch>
@ 2022-11-21 14:31 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2022-11-21 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Zwettler Markus (OIZ) <Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch>; +Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>

"Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" <Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch> writes:
> In Oracle there is a view v$archived_log in which for each logfile the time of the first and last transaction contained in it is indicated. By means of this view one can infer from a log file in the backup the maximum possible recovery time.

> Is there something similar in Postgres? Or in other words, how can one infer the maximum possible restore time from a WAL file(name) in a backup?

There's no view, but you could use pg_waldump to examine the timestamps
of the first and last COMMIT/ROLLBACK records in a WAL file.

			regards, tom lane





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