Re: Very basic question about Archive logs

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Subramanian,Ramachandran" <ramachandran(dot)subramanian(at)alte-leipziger(dot)de>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Very basic question about Archive logs
Date: 2026-03-26 12:30:24
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZwA=sq7xeLV032QJCzZ99NQnq8SNg4a6Y_hBxN_D=PmA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thursday, March 26, 2026, Subramanian,Ramachandran <
ramachandran(dot)subramanian(at)alte-leipziger(dot)de> wrote:

> Further more, if I execute the PIT-recovery On Tuesday at 0005 Hours and
> specify a Target recovery time of Monday 2300 Hours, then Postgres will
> look at the active logs and any archive logs ( if it does not already exist
> in the active logs ) that were written between Tuesday 0005 Hours and
> Monday 2300 Hours and use these logs to Undo all the changes to the current
> Database. Is my understanding correct?
>
> There is no rolling back. You deploy the base backup first to 0100
Monday, then it would apply the WAL up to the target time.

David J.

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