Re: Point in Time Recovery

Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > So the situation is:
> > - You must only stop recovery at a point in time (in the logs) after the
> > backup had completed.
>
> Right.
>
> > No way to enforce that currently, apart from procedurally. Not exactly
> > frequent, so I think I just document that and move on, eh?
>
> The procedure that generates a backup has got to be responsible for
> recording both the start and stop times. If it does not do so then
> it's fatally flawed. (Note also that you had better be careful to get
> the time as seen on the server machine's clock ... this could be a nasty
> gotcha if the backup is run on a different machine, such as an NFS
> server.)

OK, but procedurally, how do you correlate the start/stop time of the
tar backup with the WAL numeric file names?

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