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To: chandan Kumar <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Review my steps for rollback to restore point
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:42:06 +0100
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On Tue, 2025-03-04 at 14:26 +0530, chandan Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope you are doing fine. I need your expertise on below case study.
> My current production environment is 2 node streaming replication hosted on
> Ubuntu VM 's on Azure. I have performed below steps on primary database.
> 1- Take Base backup
> 2- Create a restore point using pg_create_restore_point()
> 3- executed some DDL statement (CREATE VIEW,ADD INDEX,DROP INDEX)
> 4- Perform rollback using restore point
> To rollback, you must stop PostgreSQL, restore the last full backup, and apply
> WAL files until the restore point:
> 1. Stop PostgreSQL Service
> 2. Restore from Full Backup (Using pg_basebackup)
> 3. Modify recovery.conf (or postgresql.conf for newer versions)
> o Set recovery target name:
> recovery_target_name = 'before_ddl_changes'
> recovery_target_action = 'pause'
> o Set restore_command to replay WAL logs:
> restore_command = 'cp /path/to/wal_archive/%f %p'
> 4. Start PostgreSQL
> sudo systemctl start postgresql
> 5. Verify Recovery Status
> SELECT pg_is_in_recovery();
> After verification, finalize recovery:
> touch /var/lib/postgresql/data/recovery.signal
> or
> rm /var/lib/postgresql/data/recovery.conf
> Then restart PostgreSQL.
> 6. Reestablish replication
>
> Could you please help if my steps are correct ? Can we achieve rollback from any
> other approach without restoring basebackup?
You have to create /var/lib/postgresql/data/recovery.signal *before* you
start the server. Forget about "recovery.conf", that was before v12.
You can set "recovery_target_action = 'promote'".
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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