Re: WAL restoration is not happening completely

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: rajan <vgmonnet(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL restoration is not happening completely
Date: 2016-11-14 17:55:09
Message-ID: 20161114175509.3wgvxos44hxxz26i@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2016-11-14 08:58:14 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 11/14/16 4:49 AM, rajan wrote:
> > *The restored database has changes which were done today and missing data
> > from changes did a couple of days before.*
>
> That is pretty much impossible.
>
> It is plausible to mess some of this up and end up with a database
> instance that is missing the trailing end of changes because recovery
> aborted early somehow. But missing changes *in the middle* is not
> possible, unless you are encountering a serious bug.

Could quite well be a restore with a deleted backup_label - that tends
to cause symptoms like that.

Rajan, did you by chance delete backup_label?

Regards,

Andres

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