Re: recovery.conf

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Scott Mead <scott(dot)lists(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>wrote:

>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:13 PM, dx k9 <bitsandbytes88(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I'm trying to do a PITR and I've noticed that every time I try it, it ups
>> the number it's looking for by one.
>>
>
> What's in your recovery.conf?
>
>>
>> 00000001.history
>> 00000002.history
>> .
>> .
>> 00000008.history
>>
>> For example one of my transaction log files name is
>> 0000000100000218000000C1
>>
>> Instead of looking for 0000000100000218000000C1, it replaces the first 1,
>> with a 2 or
>> 0000000200000218000000C1, I'm all the way up to 8 now. How do I tell it
>> to look for 1 or
>> 0000000100000218000000C1 again.
>>
>>
>
> Every time your database opens, it comes onto a new timeline. I don't
> *believe* you can go back to an older timeline once you've opened the
> database for operation.
>

Sorry, I'm wrong:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-TIMELINES

You'll need to modify your recovery.conf slightly, but should be able to
move back.

--Scott