| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Point in Time Recovery |
| Date: | 2004-07-13 22:25:34 |
| Message-ID: | 1089757534.17493.3217.camel@stromboli |
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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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