Re: Why standby restores some WALs many times from archive?

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 10:22:37AM +0300, Sergey Burladyan wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Don't be surprised if you get corrupted instances or that you
>> are not able to recover up to a consistent point if you need to roll in
>> a backup.
>
> But only if archive was reboot unexpectedly, am I right?

Or unplugged, which happens quite often because of human mistakes.
Maintaining scripts that do backup and restore require quite a lot of
specialized knowledge. Solutions like barman, WAL-E or pgBackRest, or
even what in-core has with say pg_receivewal are battle-proven and have
hundreds of man-hours behind from many people. I suspect that there are
other gems hidden in your scripts. So be careful.
--
Michael