Re: PITR - recovery to a particular transaction

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PITR - recovery to a particular transaction
Date: 2004-08-07 17:33:32
Message-ID: 200408071733.i77HXWn29867@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > When we do a PITR recovery based on xid, does it stop recovery based on
> > the start of the xid or the commit of the xid?
>
> You can stop either "before" or "after" that commit. See
> recovery.conf.sample (I don't think it's documented anywhere else
> yet :-(),

Yea, my question is if you choose "after", do you get everything that
happens until the "after" transaction commits, or just when it begins.
If I stop after xid 125, and xid 126 starts and stops before 125
commits, does 126 get restored?

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