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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Subramanian,Ramachandran <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Very basic question about Archive logs
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:30:24 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwZwA=sq7xeLV032QJCzZ99NQnq8SNg4a6Y_hBxN_D=PmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thursday, March 26, 2026, Subramanian,Ramachandran <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Further more, if I execute the PIT-recovery On Tuesday at 0005 Hours and
> specify a Target recovery time of Monday 2300 Hours, then  Postgres will
> look at the active logs and any archive logs ( if it does not already exist
> in the active logs ) that were written between Tuesday 0005 Hours and
> Monday 2300 Hours and use these logs to Undo all the changes to the current
> Database. Is my understanding correct?
>
> There is no rolling back.  You deploy the base backup first to 0100
Monday, then it would apply the WAL up to the target time.

David J.


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