Re: AW: AW: Very basic question about Archive logs

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: "Subramanian,Ramachandran" <ramachandran(dot)subramanian(at)alte-leipziger(dot)de>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: AW: AW: Very basic question about Archive logs
Date: 2026-03-26 17:17:23
Message-ID: 2da4630ad323530f46b9ad44bfcd90830c390dfb.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2026-03-26 at 13:42 +0000, Subramanian,Ramachandran wrote:
> When I restore the base backup, from Monday 0100 Hours, Postgres will look
> at 0/53000028 and look for newer Logs beginning from this log file ...

Yes.

> ... in the Archivelog dir.

PostgreSQL knows no such directory. It executes restore_command and expects
it to restore the desired WAL segment to pg_wal.

> Only in the archive log dir  because we would have over written the
> active log dir.

I don't understand that sentence.

> Postgres will rollforward till end of Logs OR a particular timestamp if one is specified.

Yes.

> Am I understanding this correctly?

I guess so.

Laurenz Albe

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