Re: Recovering a deleted database problem

> Well, I'd be a little worried about whether the base backup was
> self-consistent, but if it was taken at a time where the DB was idle
> then you can probably get away with this.
>

It gets backed up at 2am in the morning and AFAIK there'd be very few
(if any) transactions going through until about 5am, so it should be OK.
> AFAIK the only operations that have non-rollbackable side effects are
> CREATE/DROP DATABASE and CREATE/DROP TABLESPACE. For any of these,
> you'd end up with inconsistent state if you try to stop replay just
> before the commit record.
>

OK thanks for that Tom, after glancing through the online documentation,
I've enabled logging of checkpoints etc. by setting "log_min_messages"
to "log" - is this enough to log the times that transactions are
committed, so I can find this info should I need it again in the future?

Thanks,

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