Re: Finding time in WAL logs

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 11:28, Pascal Robert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing our backup procedure for using WAL and PITR, but to be
> able to do a (mostly) perfect PITR, I need to find the time when a
> error (DELETE FROM, DROP TABLE, etc.) was made so that I can do a
> restore just before the error.
>
> Does PostgreSQL has something similar to "mysqlbinlog" so that I can
> look at the content of a WAL archive ? I tried enabling
> "log_min_messages" at "info" level, but it doesn't log the date and
> time of a executed statement, so that's not a solution.
>

Look at the log_line_prefix option in the docs...
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHAT

--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL