Re: Recovery question

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:15:37AM -0400, Lorraine Mancuso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Postgres and had a few questions. We are testing the
> recovery of a database cluster. We have read the documentation and have
> been able to recover successfully but we were wondering about the
> contents of the ARCHIVE_STATUS subdirectory. It appears that it is OK
> for this directory to be entry during recovery. I just wanted to verify
> that this is correct.

Yes, that's OK. That directory is just used as a means to tell the
archiver what logs it can archive.

> Also, is there a way to search the archives for all notes on a
> particular subject?

http://archives.postgresql.org/

> Is this ADMIN list the appropriate forum for backup and recovery
> questions?

Yes.
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